Dall Glic: Is it of Fintan you are saying that?
Queen: And who, will you tell me, is Fintan?
Dall Glic: Anyone that never heard tell of
Fintan never heard anything at all.
Queen: His name was not up on the tablets
of big men at the King of Alban's Court, or of
Britain.
Nurse: Ah, sure in those countries they are
without religion or belief.
Queen: Is it that there was a prophecy?
King: Don't mind it. What are prophecies?
Don't we hear them every day of the week? And
if one comes true there may be seven blind and
come to nothing.
Queen: (To Dall Glic.) I must get to the root
of this, and the handle. Who, now, is Fintan?
Dall Glic: He is an astrologer, and understanding
the nature of the stars.
Nurse: He wore out in his lifetime three eagles
and three palm trees and three earthen dykes.
It is down in a cleft of the rocks beyond he has
his dwelling presently, the way he can be watching
the stars through the daytime.