“Diancecht is our physician.”
“I am a cup-bearer,” said Lugh.
“We already have nine of them.”
“I am a worker in bronze.”
“We have no need of you. We already have a worker in bronze. His name is Credné.”
“Then ask the king,” said Lugh, “if he has with him a man who is master of all these crafts at once, for, if he has, there is no need for me to come to Tara.”
So the door-keeper went inside, and told the king that a man had come who called himself Lugh the Ioldanach[[111]], or the “Master of all Arts”, and that he claimed to know everything.
The king sent out his best chess-player to play against the stranger. Lugh won, inventing a new move called “Lugh’s enclosure”.
Then Nuada invited him in. Lugh entered, and sat down upon the chair called the “sage’s seat”, kept for the wisest man.
Ogma, the champion, was showing off his strength. Upon the floor was a flagstone so large that fourscore yokes of oxen would have been needed to move it. Ogma pushed it before him along the hall, and out at the door. Then Lugh rose from his chair, and pushed it back again. But this stone, huge as it was, was only a portion broken from a still greater rock outside the palace. Lugh picked it up, and put it back into its place.