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The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu (Author: Vernam Hull)
section 16
That, then, was related to Fergus and Dubthach and Cormac. They came and performed at once great deeds. Dubthach killed
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Mane, Conchobor's son, and by a single thrust Fiachna, son of Feidelm, Conchobor's daughter, was dispatched. Fergus slew Traigthren, son of Traiglethan and his brother. With respect to them, Conchobor's honor was outraged, and afterwards battle was joined between them on a single day so that three hundred of the Ulstermen fell among them.
Before morning, the maidens of Ulster were put to death by Dubthach, and Emain was burned by Fergus. Thereupon they went to Ailill and to Medb, for they knew that that couple would be able to support them; and for the Ulstermen, moreover, it was not a refuge (?) of love. Three thousand was the number of those exiled. To the end of sixteen years
neither weeping nor trembling ceased in Ulster through them, but each single night [there was] weeping and trembling through them.