Then Angus went with that news to where the King of Ireland was with
Finn. And they gave him all those conditions, and they forgave him all
he had done through the whole of the time he had been in his hiding,
that was sixteen years.
And the place Diarmuid and Grania settled in was Rath Grania, in the
district of Ceis Corainn, far away from Finn and from Teamhair. And
Grania bore him children there, four sons and one daughter. And they
lived there in peace, and the people used to be saying there was not a
man living at the same time was richer as to gold and to silver, as to
cattle and to sheep, than Diarmuid.
CHAPTER VIII. THE BOAR OF BEINN GULBAIN
But at last one day Grania spoke to Diarmuid, and it is what she said,
that it was a shame on them, with all the people and the household they
had, and all their riches, the two best men in Ireland never to have
come to the house, the High King, her father, and Finn, son of Cumhal.
"Why do you say that, Grania," said Diarmuid, "and they being enemies to
me?"
"It is what I would wish," said Grania, "to give them a feast, the way
you would get their affection." "I give leave for that," said Diarmuid.
So Grania was making ready a great feast through the length of a year,
and messengers were sent for the High King of Ireland, and for Finn and
the seven battalions of the Fianna; and they came, and they were using
the feast from day to day through the length of a year.
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