Then four Irishmen who were in the steading to be trained came to him, and gave him many kisses, and were asking him news of their own country and land; and he asked them news in the same way.
‘Well, O youths’, says Cúchulainn ‘what training in feats of valour and warfare have ye got in the year?’
‘We have got’, they answer, ‘the Bridge of the Leaps.’
‘How long were ye learning it?’ asks Cúchulainn.
‘A training of a quarter and a month and a year and three days and three nights.’
‘Well then, O youths’, says Cúchulainn, ‘will ye give me guidance to it?’
‘Alas, O boy’, they say, ‘what profit were that to thee until Scáthach comes to teach thyself like every one else?’
‘I wish to see it’, quoth he.