This is what others recount: that it was on the eve of _samain_
(All-Saints-day) the destruction of the Hostel was wrought, and that
from yonder beacon the beacon of _samain_ is followed from that to this,
and stones (are placed) in the _samain_-fire.
Then the reavers framed a counsel at the place where they had put the
cairn.
"Well, then," says Ingcel to the guides, "what is nearest to us here?"
"Easy to say: the Hostel of Hua Derga, chief-hospitaller of Erin."
"Good men indeed," says Ingcel, "were likely to seek their fellows at
that Hostel to-night."
This, then, was the counsel of the reavers, to send one of them to see
how things were there.
"Who will go there to espy the house?" say everyone.
"Who should go," says Ingcel, "but I, for 'tis I that am entitled to
dues."
Ingcel went to reconnoitre the Hostel with one of the seven pupils of
the single eye which stood out of his forehead, to fit his eye into the
house in order to destroy the king and the youths who were around him
therein.
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