And Lugh said: "What are your minds fixed on
at this time, Men of Dea?" "On yourself indeed," said they. "I have a
question to ask of you," he said. "What is the vengeance each one of you
would take on the man that would kill your father?"
There was great wonder on them when they heard that, and one of the
chief men among them said: "Tell us was it your own father that was
killed?" "It was indeed," said Lugh; "and I see now in this house," he
said, "the men that killed him, and they know themselves what way they
killed him better than I know it." Then the king said: "It is not a
death of one day only I would give the man that had killed my father, if
he was in my power, but to cut off one of his limbs from day to day till
I would make an end of him." All the chief men said the same, and the
sons of Tuireann like the rest.
"There are making that answer," said Lugh, "the three men that killed my
father; and let them pay the fine for him now, since you are all
together in the one place. And if they will not," he said, "I will not
break the protection of the king's house, but they must make no attempt
to quit this house till they have settled with me."
"If it was I myself had killed your father," said the king, "I would be
well content you to take a fine from me for him."
"It is at us Lugh is saying all this," said the sons of Tuireann among
themselves. "Let us acknowledge the killing of his father to him," said
Iuchar and Iucharba.
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