Now every year the farmer would come to the king to complain, and the king would say to him, ‘Go thou and address Donn désa's three great-grandsons, for 'tis they that have taken the beasts.’ Whenever he went to speak to them (Donn Désá's descends) they would almost kill him15, and he would not return to the king lest Conaire should attend(?)16 his hurt.