‘What is the vengeance that thou wouldst inflict on me, O youth?’ says the damsel.
‘Rise up’, says Cúchulainn, ‘that we may fight and combat with each other.’
‘I will go there’, she says.
‘'Tis not thou that shall go there’, say Cuar and Cat, Scáthach's two sons, ‘but we.’
‘'Tis not you that shall go there, my dear sons’, says Scáthach.
‘I will go alone there’, says Cuar son of Scáthach.