Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 21, 2025
That night Setanta and Laeg slept in the same bed of healing after the physicians had dressed their wounds; and they related many things to each other, and oft times they kissed one another with great affection, till sweet sleep made heavy their eyelids.
Laeg did that and he answered their challenge with a voice that rang, striking fear into the hearts of those who heard him.
I would repose now for a while and rest myself before the battles and hard combats which await me this day. Wherefore, good Laeg, let down the sides and seats of the chariot, that I may repose myself for a little and take a short sleep." For just then precisely an unwonted drowsiness and desire for slumber possessed Cuculain.
Beneath his feet the massive timbers of the drawbridge bent and creaked. Said Laeg, "This man, O dear Setanta, is far more terrible than the first, for he is said to be altogether invulnerable and proof against any weapon that was ever made." "It is not altogether thus," said Cuculain, "but if the man escapes the first stroke he is thenceforward invincible, and surely slays his foe.
"It was in thy mind that I would refuse." "Nay, there is no such fear upon me," said Cuculain. "Then there is fear upon me," said Laeg. "A charioteer needs a champion who is stout and a valiant and faithful. Yea, truly there is fear upon me," answered Laeg.
But I see one other splendid dun, and of this thou hast said no word, though thrice I have questioned thee concerning it." Laeg grew pale at these words, and he said, "What dun is that, my master?" Cuculain said, "O fox that thou art, right well thou knowest.
I have saved thee a broken vow, for it is one of the oaths of our Order not to enter hostile territory with brittle chariot-gear!" Then the boys laughed at him again, and Laeg let go the steeds, and very soon they were out of sight.
With a crash and a ringing, armour and weapons, the giant fell upon the plain and his blood poured forth in a torrent there where he himself invulnerable had shed the blood of so many heroes. Laeg rejoiced greatly at that feat, and with a loud voice bade the men of the dun bring forth their next champion.
"And oh! my love," she said, "we were often in one another's company, and it was happy for us; for if the world had been searched from the rising of the sun to sunset, the like would never have been found in one place, of the Black Sainglain and the Grey of Macha, and Laeg the chariot-driver, and myself and Cuchulain.
Forthwith Cuculain sprang out in front of the chariot, and seized them by their mouths and they in their rearing, and with his hands bowed down their heads to the earth, and they knew their master and stood still while they quaked. Laeg collected the birds, and Cuculain secured them to the chariot and to the harness.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking