a. Now the tender warrior was asleep, with his feet in the lap of one of the two men and his head in the lap of the other. Then he awoke out of his sleep, and arose, and chanted this lay:
‘The howl of Ossar (Conaire's dog)
[...]
cry of warriors on the summit of Tol Géisse; a cold wind over edges perilous: a night to destroy a king is this night.’
b. He slept again, and awoke thereout, and sang this rhetoric:
‘The howl of Ossar (Conaire's lapdog)
[...]
a battle he announced: enslavement of a people: sack of the Hostel: mournful are the champions: men wounded: wind of terror: hurling of javelins: trouble of unfair fight: wreck of houses: Tara waste: a foreign heritage: like (is) lamenting Conaire: destruction of corn: feast of arms: cry of screams: destruction of Erin's king: chariots a-tottering: oppression of the king of Tara: lamentations will overcome laughter: Ossar's howl.’
c. He said the third time:
‘Trouble hath been shewn to me: a multitude of elves: a host supine; foes' prostration: a conflict of men on the Dodder55: oppression of Tara's king: in youth he was destroyed: lamentations will overcome laughter: Ossar's howl.’
‘Liken thou, O Fer rogain, him who has sung that lay.’