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Updated: July 12, 2025
But Ardan answered: 'For fear of what may befall us, the sons of Usna, shalt thou never leave us, nor shalt thou go forth from us, but of thine own free will. Early next morning one hundred and fifty men rode with the three sons of Usna and Deirdre, the wife of Nathos, toward the bay where their black galley was harboured.
There, against a background of blue haze, encircled by a network of blossoming blackthorn, shone forth the fairest vision mortal eye had beheld. Speech tarried as Nathos gazed spell-bound. At length the maiden questioned, 'Nathos, son of Usna, what wouldst thou? 'Strange is it that thou shouldst know my name, most fair. No mortal art thou.
"There is a great meaning in this token amongst the youths and maidens of the Gael," said he. "I know that," answered Deirdre. Deirdre returned to Levarcam. "Thou hast gathered the flower," said Levarcam. "I have," she replied, "and death and life are one to me now, dear foster-mother." Naysi went away through the forest and there is nothing related concerning him till he reached Dun Usna.
'Look, Deirdre, yonder stands the castle of the sons of Usna. And with that he gave a cry known by the brothers each of the other, and Ailne and Ardan came forth gladly. But when they stood before Deirdre, so great was their wonder at her exceeding beauty, that they stood spell-bound and uttered no word.
"There is one youth only amongst the Red Branch," said Levarcam, "who answers to that description, namely Naysi, the son of Usna, who is the battle-prop of the Ultonians and the clear-shining torch of their valour, and what god or druid or power hath set that vision before thy mind, I cannot tell." "Would that I could see him with eyes and have speech with him," answered the girl.
But when Deirdre heard how the sons of Usna would thus face death for her sake, she sighed aloud. 'Alas! it is not for me to bring sorrow upon the land. Let me even now return to the cottage in the forest, and there with Lavarcam will I live and die, unless it be that Concobar take me thence.
Naysi, son of Usna, once in a hunting became separated from his companions. He wandered far in that forest, seeking some one who should direct him upon his way. Oftentimes he raised his voice, but there was no answer. His head and his feet were bare. His short hunting-cloak was dark-red with flowery devices along the edge.
In many places, it makes the eastern skyline to observers down in the valley. Behind our front line in this Mash Valley is the pleasant green Usna Hill, which runs across the hollow and shuts it in to the south.
She towered above her aged companion, straight as a pillar of red yew in a king's house. So, unwitting, jocund, and innocent, fresh and pure as the morning, she paced over the green lawn, going in the direction of that youth, even Naysi, son of Usna the Ultonian.
'The fairest of three fair brothers is this Nathos, the son of Usna, and now is he with Concobar the King. And Deirdre would thereafter think of none but Nathos, and Lavarcam was much troubled because of the words that she had spoken. And when Deirdre longed grievously by day and night to see this Nathos of whom she had heard, Lavarcam thought of a plan whereby she might end the maiden's dream.
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