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

section 108

‘This is easy for me. Those are the King of Tara's six cupbearers, namely Úan and Broen and Banna62, Delt and Drucht.63 and Dathen. That feat does not hinder them from their skinking, and it blunts not their intelligence thereat. Good are the warriors that are there! Thrice their number will fall by them. They will share prowess with any six in the Hostel, and they will escape from their foes, for they are out of the elfmounds. They are the best cupbearers in Erin. Woe to him that shall wreak the Destruction were it only because of them!’

‘Ye cannot,’ says Ingcél. ‘Clouds, etc. And after that, whom sawest thou there?’


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