“Then,” said Ciad, “I’m that man;” and he told his story to Soul of Steel.
Soul of Steel said he was a great hero, surely, and that he was glad to give him buaidh.
“Break a branch,” he said, “from that oak tree that grows before my castle, and it will give you buaidh.”
Ciad went to the oak tree and broke a branch, but when it fell to the ground, it sprang up into a great tree, and with every other branch he broke the same thing happened.
Soul of Steel came out and gave him his cloak. He said, “Spread this under the branch.”
He broke another branch, which fell on the cloak, and he carried it off, and went in search of Mountain of Fierceness.
He traveled away and away before him, far further than I can tell you, and twice as far as you could tell me, over height, hill, and hollow, mountain, moor and scrug, lone valley and green glen, until at last and at length, he found, in Africa, Mountain of Fierceness with all his men, gathered together on a hilltop. He walked up to them, and asked what was happening.
They said Mountain of Fierceness was being married to the Queen of the Indies. He pushed his way to where the priests were marrying them.
Mountain of Fierceness asked the stranger what he wanted.
Ciad said, “I have come to conquer you.”