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

section 136

The Room of Fer caille.

‘There I beheld at the fire in front a man with black cropt hair, having only one eye and one foot and one hand, having on the fire a pig bald, black, singed, squealing continually, and in his company a great big-mouthed woman. Liken thou that, O Fer rogain!’


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‘Easily done: Fer caille with his pig and his wife Cichuil. They (the wife and the pig) are his proper instruments on the night that ye destroy Conaire King of Erin. Alas for the guest who will run(?) between them! Fer caille with his pig is one of Conaire's tabus.’

‘Woe to him who shall wreak the Destruction!’ says Lomna.

‘Ye cannot,’ quoth Ingcél. ‘And after that, whom sawest thou there?’