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The Expulsion of the Dessi (Author: Unknown)
paragraph 12
Cormac, the grandson of Conn, played a trick upon two soldiers of Oengus the King, to wit, Grainne and Moinne, from whom Granraige and Moinrige are so called. He caused it to be said to either of them in the absence of the other: ‘Small is thy esteem with thy king, O Grainne. Thou art not deemed worthy to be compared to Moinne the Gall.’ The same thing was said to Moinne. Then the latter said to Oengus: ‘If I am put in comparison with Grainne, I shall put this spear through thee.’ When Cormac knew the order of the watch which would come
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to them on the same night together ... Tis they who let in a host upon him in his fortress, and one of them wounded him, and his brother's son was slain together with him.