Medb looked at the two. 'It pleases me, yonder pair,' said she; 'a match between them would be fitting.'
'I will not stand in your way,' said Ailill; 'he shall have her if he brings me the head of the Riastartha.'
'I will bring it,' said Larine.
Then Lugaid comes. 'What man have you for the ford to-morrow?' said he.
'Larine goes,' said Ailill.
Then Lugaid comes to speak with Cuchulainn. They meet in Glenn
Firbaith. Each gives the other welcome.
'It is for this I have come to speak to you,' said Lugaid: 'there is a churl here, a fool and proud,' said he, 'a brother of mine named Larine; he is befooled about the same maiden. On your friendship then, do not kill him, lest you should leave me without a brother. For it is for this that he is being sent to you, so that we two might quarrel. I should be content, however, that you should give him a sound drubbing, for it is in my despite that he comes.'
Larine goes next day to meet Cuchulainn, and the maiden near him to encourage him. Cuchulainn attacks him without arms. [Note: This is apparently the sense, but the passage seems corrupt.] He takes Larine's arms from him perforce. He takes him then between his two hands, and grinds and shakes him, … and threw him till he was between Lugaid's two hands …; nevertheless, he is the only man who escaped [even] a bad escape from him, of all who met him on the Tain.
The Conversation of the Morrigan with Cuchulainn
Cuchulainn saw a young woman coming towards him, with a dress of every colour on, and her form very excellent.