Good should I be to far-renowned Mac cecht
If I were alive. A good man!"
After this Mac cecht followed the routed foe.
'Tis this that some books relate, that but a very few fell around
Conaire, namely, nine only. And hardly a fugitive escaped to tell the
tidings to the champions who had been at the house.
Where there had been five thousand--and in every thousand ten
hundred--only one set of five escaped, namely Ingcel, and his two
brothers Echell and Tulchinne, the "Yearling of the Reavers"--three
great-grandsons of Conmac, and the two Reds of Roiriu who had been the
first to wound Conaire.
Thereafter Ingcel went into Alba, and received the kingship after his
father, since he had taken home triumph over a king of another country.
This, however, is the recension in other books, and it is more probably
truer. Of the folk of the Hostel forty or fifty fell, and of the reavers
three fourths and one fourth of them only escaped from the Destruction.
Now when Mac cecht was lying wounded on the battle-field, at the end of
the third day, he saw a woman passing by.
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