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“Glenn Dá-Rúad!

My love to every man who hath it as an heritage!

Sweet the cuckoos’ note on bending bough,

On the peak over Glenn Dá-Rúad.

“Beloved is Draigen,

Dear the white sand beneath its waves;

I would not have come from it, from the East,

Had I not come with my beloved.”

They crossed the sea, and arrived at the Dún of Borrach, who bade them welcome to Ireland. Now King Conchobar had sent Borrach a secret command, that he should offer a feast to Fergus on his landing. Strange taboos called geasa are laid upon the various heroes of ancient Ireland in the stories; there are certain things that each one of them may not do without forfeiting life or honour; and it was a geis upon Fergus to refuse a feast.