Part 68 of The Wooing of Emer by Cú Chulainn

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The Wooing of Emer by Cú Chulainn (Author: [unknown])

paragraph 67

Then Cuchulaind went on that road across the Plain of Ill-luck

and through the Perilous Glen as the youth had taught him. This was the road which Cuchulaind took, to the camp where the scholars of Scathach were. He asked where she was. ‘In yonder island,’ said they. ‘Which way must I go to her?’ said he. ‘By the Bridge of the Cliff,’ said they, ‘and no man can cross it before he has achieved valour.’ For on this wise was that bridge. It had two low heads and the mid space, and whenever anybody would leap on its one head, the other head would lift itself up and throw him on his back. This is what some versions relate here, that a crowd of the warriors of Erinn were in that dun learning feats from Scathach, viz. Ferdia, son of Daman, and Noise, son of Usnech, and Lochmor, son of Egomas, and Fiamain, son of Fora, and an innumerable host besides. But it is not told in this version that they were there at that time.