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The Wooing of Emer by Cú Chulainn (Author: [unknown])
paragraph 21
‘Those are good fights of a tender boy,’ said the maiden, ‘but thou hast not yet
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reached the strength of chariot-chiefs.’ ‘Truly, oh maiden,’ said he, ‘well have I been brought up by my dear foster-father Conchobor. Not as a churl looks to the heritage of his children, not between flag-stone and kneading-trough, nor from the fire to the wall, nor on the floor of the one larder (?) have I been brought up by Conchobor, but among chariot-chiefs and champions, among jesters and druids, among poets and learned men, among the lords of land and farmers of Ulster have I been reared, so that I have all their manners and gifts.’