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[Footnote 9: In the bay of Glandore, co. Cork.--W.S.]
[Footnote 10: At Ballyshannon, co. Donegal.--W.S.]
"Nine doors there are to the house, and at each door a hundred warriors
will fall by his hand. And when every one in the house has ceased to ply
his weapon, 'tis then he will resort to a deed of arms. And if he chance
to come upon you out of the house, as numerous as hailstones and grass
on a green will be your halves of heads and your cloven skulls and your
bones under the edge of his sword.
"'Tis my opinion that he will not chance to get out of the house. Dear
to him are the two that are with him in the room, his two fosterers,
Dris and Snithe. Thrice fifty warriors will fall before each of them in
front of the Hostel and not farther than a foot from him, on this side
and that, will they too fall."
"Woe to him who shall wreak the Destruction, were it only because of
that pair and the prince that is between them, the over-king-of Erin,
Conaire son of Eterscel! Sad were the quenching of that reign!" says
Lomna Druth, son of Donn Desa.
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