And though I had never seen
thee, I knew thee at once from thy description: it is thou, then, I
have reached."
"No 'seeking of an ill friend afar' shall be thine," says Eochaid. "Thou
shalt have welcome, and for thee every other woman shall be left by me,
and with thee alone will I live so long as thou hast honour."
"My proper bride-price to me!" she says, "and afterwards my desire."
"Thou shalt have both," says Eochaid.
Seven _cumals_[3] are given to her.
[Footnote 3: I.e., twenty-one cows.]
Then the king, even Eochaid Feidlech, dies, leaving one daughter named,
like her mother, Etain, and wedded to Cormac, king of Ulaid.
After the end of a time Cormac, king of Ulaid, "the man of the three
gifts," forsakes Eochaid's daughter, because she was barren save for one
daughter that she had borne to Cormac after the making of the pottage
which her mother--the woman from the elfmounds--gave her. Then she said
to her mother: "Bad is what thou hast given me: it will be a daughter
that I shall bear.
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