They landed then, and they came up to where Finn was, bringing
every sort of present with them, and Aoife sat down beside him. And Finn
asked news of her, and she told him the whole story, and how she had
given her love to Lugaidh's Son, and was come over the sea looking for
him; and Finn made her welcome.
And when the hunting was over, the chief men of the Fianna came back to
where Finn was, and every one asked who was the queen that was with him.
And Finn told them her name, and what it was brought her to Ireland. "We
welcome her that made that journey," said they all; "for there is not in
Ireland or in Alban a better man than the man she is come looking for,
unless Finn himself."
And as to Lugaidh's Son, it was on the far side of Slieve Bladhma he was
hunting that day, and he was the last to come in. And he went into
Finn's tent, and when he saw the woman beside him he questioned Finn the
same as the others had done, and Finn told him the whole story. "And it
is to you she is come," he said; "and here she is to you out of my hand,
and all the war and the battles she brings with her; but it will not
fall heavier on you," he said, "than on the rest of the Fianna."
And she was with Lugaidh's Son a month and a year without being asked
for. But one day the three battalions of the Fianna were on the Hill of
the Poet in Leinster, and they saw three armed battalions equal to
themselves coming, against them, and they asked who was bringing them.
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