‘I see that thou hast not detained the men,’ says Conaire.
‘Indeed it is not I that betrayed it,’ i.e. endured not to perform the errand says Lé fri flaith.
He recited the last answer that they gave him. They (Conaire and his retainers) were not blithe thereat: and afterwards evil forebodings that is, bad spirits of terror were on them.
‘All my tabus have seized me tonight,’ says Conaire, ‘since those Three Reds are the banished folks23.’