The nobles of the men of Erin were requesting Cormac to ordain his proper right to every one in Tech Midchuarta. This, then, was the solution which Cormac invented, namely, to place on the fire the Five-fist Caldron which was in Tara, — it was a coire aisicain or ansire — and to put into it swine and beeves, and to sing over it an incantation of lords and poets and wizards.