‘Good indeed’, says Scáthach: ‘look well at that youth, for it was shewn to me a short time ago, that a young, childlike, unold youth was coming to me from the west, out of the lands of Erin, and that he would gain the victory of the Bridge of the Leaps, in one hour, although for every other person it requires a training for a quarter and a month and a year and three days and three nights, and