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The destruction of Da Derga's Hostel (Author: [unknown])
section 103
The Room of the Rearguards.
‘There I saw twelve men on silvery hurdles all around that
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room of the king. Light yellow hair was on them. Blue kilts they wore. Equally beautiful were they, equally hardy, equally shapely. An ivory-hilted sword in each man's hand, and they cast them not down; but it is the horse-rods in their hands that are all round the room. Liken thou that, O Fer rogain.’