Half red and half white.
Garments of every color about them.
"Thereafter I see before them special cattle specially keen, to wit,
thrice fifty dark-gray steeds. Small-headed are they, red-nosed,
pointed, broad-hoofed, big-nosed, red-chested, fat, easily-stopt,
easily-yoked, foray-nimble, keen, whetted, vehement, with their thrice
fifty bridles of red enamel upon them."
"I swear by what my tribe swears," says the man of the long sight,
"these are the cattle of some good lord. This is my judgment thereof: it
is Conaire, son of Eterscel, with multitudes of the men of Erin around
him, who has travelled the road."
Back then they go that they may tell it to the reavers. "This," they
say, "is what we have heard and seen."
Of this host, then, there was a multitude, both on this side and on
that, namely, thrice fifty boats, with five thousand in them, and ten
hundred in every thousand. Then they hoisted the sails on the boats, and
steer them thence to shore, till they landed on the Strand of Fuirbthe.
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