“Well,” said Maunus, “I will make laws for myself. Any man who will not go for a day and a year into the Bake-house, and suffer three drops of the molten torrent, he shall not get the woman. But any man of you two who goes there, he must get the woman and welcome.”
“Oh, we will not go there, as we have got ourselves out of it.”
“I will go for a year,” said Maunus, “but I must get the woman when I come back.”
“Oh, we will bestow her on you, but you will not go there, nor any one else that we can keep out of it.”
Maunus got the wife; and they prepared a month’s fire and a year’s embers, till he and the daughter of the High King of Greece were married together; and they spent a fortnight after the month in celebrating the wedding with every sort of sport and play. When everything was ended, and each champion was going to his own home, Bioultach said,—
“I believe it is good and right for me to go home to see Erin, and my father and mother.”
“Oh, you are settled now.”
“Oh,” said Keeal-an-Iaran, “I will go with you to see you and my sister in your home.”
When Bioultach arose early, full of brightness, he rubbed palm to poll and palm to forehead, to let it be seen that he, as a lion in his valour, was the best in spirit, in beauty, and in courage. He went down to the sea, with his wife and her brother. They bade farewell to the king and the nobles of the court, and went on board the leaden boat. And they hoisted their great sails, etc., till to haven they came and harbour at Binn Edin Vik Shanla, the place where the first ship ever came to Erin.