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Updated: June 25, 2025
The birds returned to life and Cuculain cut the binding cords, so that the birds flew over and on either side of the chariot, and singing besides. In that manner, speeding northward, Cuculain and Laeg drew nigh to Emain Macha.
The horses went to their ancient stalls, the Liath Macha to that which was nearer to the door. Cuculain took off their bridles and hanged them on the wall. He went forth into the night. The horses were already eating their barley, but they looked after him as he went. The doors shut to with a brazen clash. Cuculain stood alone in the great court under the stars.
The horse ceased to struggle. Down and out of the Dark Valley rodest thou, O peerless one, with thy horses. The Liath Macha was grey to whiteness, the other horse was black and glistening like the bright mail of the chaffer. He rode thence to Emain Macha with the two horses like a lord of Day and Night, and of Life and Death.
Then he stood stiffly on the edge of the moat to watch and listen, and growled at intervals when he heard some noise far away. It was then precisely that Setanta set forth from Emain Macha. Earth quaked to the growling of that ill beast.
"When I came last night," said the Philosopher, "from the place of Angus Og in the cave of the Sleepers of Erinn I was bidden say to a man named MacCulain that The Grey of Macha had neighed in his sleep and the sword of Laeg clashed on the floor as he turned in his slumber." The young man leaped from the grass.
The sons of Dithorba made it, giants of the elder time, labouring there under the brazen shoutings of Macha and the roar of her sounding thongs. Its length was a mile and nine furlongs and a cubit. With her brooch pin she ploughed its outline upon the plain, and its breadth was not much less.
"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.
He draweth nigh. Verily It is he whom I behold The predicted one the child of many prophecies Chief flower of the Branch that is over all The mainstay of Emaiti Macha the battle-prop of the Ultonians The torch of the valour and chivalry of the North The star that is to shine for ever upon the forehead of the Gael.
For ere these things may be there shall come a child to Emain Macha, attended by clear portents from the gods; through him shall arise our deathless fame. Also it hath been foretold that there shall be great divisions and fratricidal strife amongst the children of Rury, a storm of war which shall strip the Red Branch nigh bare."
"Bearing on shoulders immense Atlantean the weight, Well nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate." One day, in the forenoon, a man came to Emain Macha. He was grim and swarthy, with great hands and arms.
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