After consultation with her regarding it, the men of Scotland were assembled to kill them. She related that to Noisiu.
‘Depart hence,’ she said. ‘Unless you shall have gone away by tonight, you will be killed tomorrow.’
That night they went away until they were on an island of the sea. That was related to the Ulstermen.
‘Grievous it is, O Conchobor,’ the Ulstermen said, ‘for the Sons of Uisliu to fall in hostile lands through the crime of a bad woman. It were better to be lenient with them and to feed them and not to slay them and for them to come to the land than for them to fall at the hands of their foes.’ ‘Let them come, therefore,’ Conchobor said, ‘and let sureties go for them.’
That [message] was brought to them.
‘We welcome it,’ they said. ‘We shall go, and let Fergus come for us as surety and Dubthach and Cormac mac Conchobuir.’
They went and gave them accompaniment from the sea.