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The Training of Cúchulainn (Author: unknown)

section 19

When that girl saw the unique youth on the back of the bridge, she gave him in the space of that hour the love of her soul; and her nature was deluded greatly from the love of the youth seen in that strait.

And when it was meet for her to put a thread of gold to the fringe in her hand she used to put a thread of silver.6. And many colours used to come to the girl, for (at one time) she was as white as a white flower, and at another time she was purple, blood-red.