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Finn and the Man in the Tree (Author: Unknown)

story 1

As did Finn ua Baiscne. When the fian were at Badamair on the brink of the Suir, Cúldub the son of Ua Birgge came out of the fairy-knoll on the plain of Femen (ut Scotti dicunt) and carried off their cooking from them. For three nights he did thus to them. The third time however Finn knew1 and went before him to the fairy-knoll on Femen. Finn laid hold of him as he went into the knoll, so that he fell yonder.2 When he withdrew his hand, a woman met him3 (?) coming out of the knoll with a dripping vessel in her hand, having just distributed


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drink, and she jammed the door against the knoll, and Finn squeezed his finger between the door and the post. Then he put his finger into his mouth. When he took it out again he began to chant, the imbas illumines him and he said [Here follows an untranslatable ‘rhetoric’].