Thereafter Dá Derga came to them, with thrice fifty warriors, each of them having a long head of hair to the hollow of his polls, and a short cloak to their buttocks. Speckled-green drawers33 they wore, and in their hands were thrice fifty great clubs of thorn with bands of iron.
‘Welcome, O master Conaire!’ quoth he. ‘Though the bulk of the men of Erin were to come with thee, they themselves would have a welcome.’