At the end of a year the warrior comes into his meeting and asked of Cormac the consideration for his branch. ‘It shall be given’, says Cormac.
‘I will take (thy daughter) Ailbe today,’ says the warrior.
So he took the girl with him. The women of Tara utter three loud cries after the daughter of the king of Erin. But Cormac shook the branch at them, so that he banished grief from them all and cast them into sleep.