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The destruction of Da Derga's Hostel (Author: [unknown])

section 29

‘When I was acquainted with his house’ says Mac cecht, ‘the road whereon thou art going towards him was the boundary of his abode. It continues till it enters his house, for through the house passes the road. There are seven doorways into the house, and seven bedrooms between every two doorways; but there is only one door-valve on it, and that valve is turned to every doorway to which the wind blows.’

‘With all that thou hast here,’ says Conaire, ‘thou shalt go in thy great multitude until thou alight in the midst of the house.’

‘If so be,’ answers Mac cecht, ‘that thou goest thither, I go on that I may strike fire there ahead of thee.’