Then he put on a second berry and killed another fish, and
he put on a third berry and killed the third fish. Then he put the hook
and the hair under his belt, and struck the rod into the earth, and he
brought the three salmon where Diarmuid and Grania were, and put them on
spits. When they were done, Muadhan said: "I give the dividing of the
fish to you, Diarmuid." "I would sooner you to divide it than myself,"
said Diarmuid. "I will give the dividing of the fish to you, so,
Grania," said he. "I am better satisfied you to divide it," said Grania.
"If it was you that divided the fish, Diarmuid," said Muadhan, "you
would have given the best share to Grania; and if it was Grania divided
it, she would have given you the best share; and as it is myself is
dividing it, let you have the biggest fish, Diarmuid, and let Grania
have the second biggest, and I myself will have the one is smallest."
They spent the night there, and Diarmuid and Grania slept in the far
part of the cave, and Muadhan kept watch for them until the rising of
the day and the full light of the morrow.
Diarmuid rose up early, and he bade Grania keep watch for Muadhan, and
that he himself would go and take a walk around the country. He went out
then, and he went up on a hill that was near, and he was looking about
him, east and west, north and south. He was not long there till he saw a
great fleet of ships coming from the west, straight to the bottom of the
hill where he was.
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