But Ardan appealed to Mainè.
“Let me be first, sweet sir,” he pleaded. He turned confidingly to Conachúr. “I cannot bear to see my brothers killed,” he said....
Deirdre knelt by the bodies, and she sang their keen, beginning:
“I send a blessing eastward to Scotland.”
When she had finished the poem she bowed over her husband’s body: she sipped of his blood, and she died there upon his body.
SO FAR, THE FATE OF THE SONS OF UISNEAC, AND THE OPENING OF THE GREAT TÁIN
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