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

section 91

The Room of Conaire's three sons, Oball and Oblin and Corpre.

‘There I beheld a room with a trio in it, to wit, three tender striplings, wearing three silken mantles. In their mantles were three golden brooches. Three golden-yellow manes were on them. When they undergo head-cleansing(?) their golden-yellow mane reaches the edge of their haunches. When they raise their eye it raises the hair so that it is not lower than the tips of their ears, and it is as curly as a ram's head(?). A
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of gold and a palace-flambeau above each of them. Every one who is in the house spares them, voice and deed and word. Liken thou that, O Fer rogain,’ says Ingcél.


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