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The destruction of Da Derga's Hostel (Author: [unknown])
section 20
Since, then, pride and wilfulness possessed them, they took to marauding, surrounded by the sons of the lords of the men of
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Erin. Thrice fifty men had they as pupils when they (the pupils) were were-wolfing17 in the province of Connaught, until Maine Milscothach's swineherd saw them, and he had never seen that before. He went in flight. When they heard him they pursued him. The swineherd shouted, and the people of the two Mainès came to him, and the thrice fifty men were arrested, along with their auxiliaries, and taken to Tara. They consulted the king concerning the matter, and he said:Let each father slay his son, but let my fosterlings be spared.