'Do not come to me,' said Cuchulainn. 'You will die from it, and I should be sorry to kill you.'
'I shall come indeed,' said Fraech, 'that we may meet in the water; and let your play with me be fair.'
'Settle it as you like,' said Cuchulainn.
'The hand of each of us round the other,' said Fraech.
They set to wrestling for a long time on the water, and Fraech was submerged. Cuchulainn lifted him up again.
'This time,' said Cuchulainn, 'will you yield and accept your life?' [Note: Lit. 'will you acknowledge your saving?']
'I will not suffer it,' said Fraech.
Cuchulainn put him under it again, until Fraech was killed. He comes to land; his retinue carry his body to the camp. Ath Fraich, that was the name of that ford for ever. All the host lamented Fraech. They saw a troop of women in green tunics [Note: Fraech was descended from the people of the Sid, his mother Bebind being a fairy woman. Her sister was Boinn (the river Boyne).] on the body of Fraech Mac Idaid; they drew him from them into the mound. Sid Fraich was the name of that mound afterwards.
Fergus springs over the oak in his chariot. They go till they reach
Ath Taiten; Cuchulainn destroys six of them there: that is, the six
Dungals of Irress.
Then they go on to Fornocht. Medb had a whelp named Baiscne. Cuchulainn throws a cast at him, and took his head off. Druim was the name of that place henceforth.