At home Ciad lay in his bed for three days, with his father’s doctors attending him. At the end of that time he got up and asked his father to give him thirty men and another ship, that he might set out on his journey again.
His father tried to persuade him not to go, but it was of no use. Ciad said if he did not fulfill his geasa, he could never hold up his head with men again.
Then he set out with two ships. Ceud, Mith-Ceud, and himself were in one ship, and his father’s thirty men in the other.
They sailed for three days and three nights in the same direction in which they had gone before, and on the morning of the fourth day, he saw two specks on the waters, far off. They were coming towards him. They got larger every moment. He saw they were two ships. When they came nearer, he saw the giant standing in one, and a host of men in the other. When they came quite close, Ciad hailed the Giant of the Great Seas and asked him did he mean battle.
The giant replied: “If you do not mean battle, I do not.”
“Where are you going, then?” Ciad asked.
The giant said: “I’m going in search of the Riches of the World.”
“Where is that to be found?” said Ciad.
“It’s on an island in the Far World,” the giant said, “and is owned by the Queen of the Island of the Riches of the World.”
“Then I’ll go with you,” Ciad said.