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The Second Battle of Moytura (Author: [unknown])

section 125

Now after the spear had been given him, Ruadán turned and wounded Goibniu. But he plucked out the spear and cast it at Ruadán, so that it went through him, and he died in the presence of his father in the assembly of the Fomorians. Then Brígh comes and bewailed her son. She shrieked at first, she cried at last. So that then for the first time crying


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and shrieking were heard in Erin. Now it is that Brígh who invented a whistle for signalling at night.