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King Eochaid has horse's ears (Author: Unknown)
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On another day, at the end of a year, the host and Mac
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Dichoime went to the same place where he had fallen, and where he had vomited forth his secret, and he informs the host: Here,
he said, was I cured, and vomited three streams of blood, and he uttered these quatrains:
- 1] Here was cured
2] The son of Dichoim
3] By vomiting forth his secret (a rough stream)
4] Regarding the terrible fierce Eochaid.
- 5] When I went to seek my cure,
6] After a year, I had kept a secret,
7] Which had thrown me into a wasting,
8] Into feebleness and into an evil state.
- 9] Streams of blood (I felt the better of it)
10] Poured forth over my lips, from my nose,
11] My God has ordained them to be trees.
12] So that they are now seen here.
Then the hosts saw three straight saplings, and knew not who...1 He let the host pass on before him, and stayed behind to make a circular enclosure about them, and when he had ended and finished his work he went after the host.