While no hurt he himself received.
Finn is greatly disappointed at Diarmad’s success. He evidently calculated that in his struggle with the boar alone his nephew would receive his death-hurt. This was not the case, and—
Then Finn of the Féinn grew sad,
And sat on the side of the hill;
It grieved him that brave MacDoon
Escaped without wound or ill.
From the first Finn cannot be said to have adopted a very magnanimous plan for punishing his nephew; but jealousy being cruel as the grave, he has formed now a cruel expedient for compassing his death:—
After long silence he spoke—
These evil words spoke he—