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"Hush!" said Mongan; "it is wrong for thee to reveal a secret." "Well then," said the warrior, "we were with Finn coming from Alba. We met Fothad Airgtech near here, on the banks of Larne Water. We fought a battle with him. I cast my spear at him, so that it went through his body, and the iron head quitted the shaft, and went into earth beyond, and remained there.
Mongan and his companions were then brought into the house, and all was done for them that could be done for honoured guests. Everything within the house was as excellent as all without, and it was inhabited by seven men and seven women, and it was evident that Mongan and these people were well acquainted. In the evening a feast was prepared, and when they had eaten well there was a banquet.
Others who put a shoe on your horse or a piece of embroidery on your mantle; and others, again, who took stains off your sword or dyed your finger-nails or sold you a hound. It was a great and joyous gathering that was going to the feast. Mongan and his servant sat against a grassy hedge by the roadside and watched the multitude streaming past.
Mongan agreed to play a trick on the priests. He looked at them hard for a minute, and then he waved his hand at them. The two priests stopped, and they stared straight in front of them, and then they looked at each other, and then they looked at the sky. The clerk began to bless himself, and then Tibraide' began to bless himself, and after that they didn't know what to do.
Duv Laca had a young attendant, who was her foster-sister as well as her servant, and on the day that she got married to Mongan, her attendant was married to mac an Da'v, who was servant and foster-brother to Mongan.
The King of Leinster went off then, and Mongan and his servant went with the charioteer and the people. Mongan read away out of the book, for he found it interesting, and he did not want to talk to the charioteer, and mac an Da'v cried amen, amen, every time that Mongan took his breath.
"I heard you say that before," said Mongan. "I will say it till Doom," cried his servant, "for my wife has gone away with that pestilent king, and he has got the double of your bad bargain." Mongan and his servant then set out for Leinster.
She sat hunched up against the wail, and as she looked like a bundle of rags they did not notice her. She began to speak then. "Terrible are the things I see," said she. "Terrible are the things I see." Mongan and his servant gave a jump of surprise, and their two wives jumped and squealed.
He got on one with his wife behind him and Mongan got on the other with Duv Laca behind him, and they rode away towards Ulster like the wind, singing this song: The King of Leinster was married to-day, Married to-day, married to-day, The King of Leinster was married to-day, And every one wishes him joy.
The hag took the cat off her shoulder and gave it to mac an Da'v. "Hold that for me while I think," said she. "Would you like to be a lovely young girl?" asked Mongan. "I'd sooner be that than a skinned eel," said she. "And would you like to marry me or the King of Leinster?" "I'd like to marry either of you, or both of you, or whichever of you came first."
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