Liken thou that, O Fer rogain!"
"Easy for me to liken them! Mal son of Telband, and Munremar son of
Gerrchenn, and Birderg son of Ruan. Three crown-princes, three champions
of valour, three heroes the best behind weapons in Erin! A hundred
heroes will fall by them in their first conflict, and they will share
prowess with every man in the Hostel, and they will boast of the victory
over a king or chief of the reavers, and afterwards they will chance to
escape. The Destruction should not be wrought even because of
those three."
"Woe to him that shall wreak the Destruction!" says Lomna. "Better were
the victory of saving them than the victory of slaying them! Happy he
who should save them! Woe to him that shall slay them!"
"It is not feasible," says Ingcel, etc. "And afterwards whom sawest
thou?"
THE ROOM OF CONALL CERNACH
"There I beheld in a decorated room the fairest man of Erin's heroes. He
wore a tufted purple cloak. White as snow was one of his cheeks, the
other was red and speckled like foxglove.
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