‘By my word’, says the second man, ‘that (word) will not be taken from thee.’ And he seized Cúchulainn by the ankle, and threw him up on the top of their house. And all the spears and darts were set against him.
But Cúchulainn came down slowly, cunningly, lightly, and made stay and rest on the end of the dart that was next him, and afterwards came to the second dart, and reached the third dart, and so from dart to dart, till he came to the last dart.