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The Expulsion of the Dessi (Author: Unknown)
paragraph 10
Then messengers were sent from Cormac after the sons of Brecc, even Russ and Eogan, that they should come back to Cormac. When Oengus heard that, he said to them: ‘Is it true,’ said he, ‘that they have come on an errand of peace and treaty with you?’ ‘It is true,’ said they. ‘We are to be absolved of everything that we have done, and we are to have twice as much again as our own land, together with our own land and full peace till Doom.’ ‘Do not do it,’ said Oengus, ‘leave me not alone!
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You shall have two thirds of the land which we shall clear, precedence to your children over my own children till Doom, and my own children to go to battle and across the border before every one, and to be the last to come out of the enemy's land. And they shall clear the land before you. Do not leave me!’ Then they did that, and truth was pledged for it, to wit, truth of breast and cheek, of heaven and earth, of sun and moon, of dew and drop, of sea and land.