“If I find them asleep,” said he, “I will bring her back; if you give me a reward.”
“I will pay you well,” said the king. “I will not spare rewards on you, if you bring me my daughter.”
When Lavran came to where Fin was, he found him and the Fenians asleep, and put them in a still deeper sleep. He brought Teasa Taov Geal to her father’s ship then. The fleet sailed away in the night; and at daybreak there was not a trace of it.
Next morning when Fin woke, and found that the king’s daughter was gone, he sprang up, and was raging with anger. He sent men to look for the fleet; but not a boat nor a ship was in sight.
Oscar and Goll, seeing Fin in such passion, said, “We will go, if a druid goes with us. He will find out the castle by his knowledge; and we will bring the woman back, or die while striving to bring her.”
Next morning, Goll and Oscar took a ready ship from the fleet of the King of Sorách, set sail, and never stopped till they touched land near the castle of the High King.
“The best way for us,” said the druid, on landing, “is to say that we are bards, till we learn where the strength of the king is.”
“We will not do that,” said Oscar. “We will go straight forward, and bring the woman back with the strength of our arms.”
They went straight from the strand toward the castle. At the wayside was a rath where the daughter of the king was at that time, and no great number of men there to guard her. Goll and Oscar attacked the guards, cut them down, and took Taov Geal.