When he had finished that song Finn said: ‘Warriors,’ said he, ‘I fear the words which Fer-lí speaks to us remembering his feud against us. And it is true indeed,’ said he, ‘that I have seen Garadh son of Morna in the battle of Cruinnmóin cutting down the fian so that they did not dare to face him for the boiling wrath of the champion. And indeed I have also seen the veteran in sore plight by the fian,’ said Finn, and then he spoke the lay:
- Iuchna Ardmhór daughter of Goll,
mother of Fer-lí of slender hand;
many are they whose head he has bowed;
the son resembles Goll.- Fer-lí son of Fer-tái without fault,
Émer who is accustomed to many a fight,
my two foster-sons will fall by me;
to me they grant no justice, meseems.- I saw Garadh early;
he would drain a lake though it were a river;
on the day that he fell by the fian
'twas he who cried ah! and woe!- Goll was splitting shields;
there was the lord that dealt out blood!
in the battle of Cruinnmóin
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his hand and his wrath seethed.