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

section 85

The Room of Conaire's Majordomo.

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‘There I saw a room with one man in it. Rough cropt hair upon him. Though a sack of crab-apples should be flung on his head, not one of them would fall on the floor, but every apple would stick on his hair. His fleecy mantle was over him in the house. Every quarrel therein about seat or bed comes to his decision. Should a needle drop in the house, its fall would be heard when he speaks. Above him is a huge black tree, like a millshaft, with its paddles and its cap(?) and its spike. Liken thou him, O Fer rogain!’