id, "and I will go ask news of him to-night."

He went back then to where Grania was, and Muadhan killed three salmon
for their supper, and kept a watch for them through the night. And
Diarmuid rose up at the early break of day, and he put his battle
clothes on him, that no weapon could go through, and he took the sword
of Angus, that left no leavings after it, at his left side, and his two
thick-handled spears, the Gae Buidhe and the Gae Dearg, the Yellow and
the Red, that gave wounds there was no healing for. And then he wakened
Grania, and he bade her to keep watch for Muadhan, and he himself would
go out and take a look around.

When Grania saw him looking so brave, and dressed in his clothes of
anger and of battle, great fear took hold of her, and she asked what was
he going to do. "It is for fear of meeting my enemies I am like this,"
said he. That quieted Grania, and then Diarmuid went out to meet the
Green Champions.

They came to land then, and they asked had he news of the grandson of
Duibhne. "I saw him not long ago," said Diarmuid. "If that is so, let us
know where is he," said they, "till we bring his head to Finn, son of
Cumhal." "I would be keeping bad watch for him if I did that," said
Diarmuid, "for his life and his body are under the protection of my
valour, and by reason of that I will do no treachery on him." "Is that
true?" said they. "It is true indeed," said Diarmuid. "Let you yourself
quit this place, so," they said, "or we will bring your head to Finn
since you are an enemy to him." "It is in bonds I would be," said
Diarmuid, "the time I would leave my head with you." And with that he
drew his sword the Mor-alltach out of its sheath, and he made a fierce
blow at the head nearest him that put it in two halves. Then he made an
attack on the whole host of the Green Champions, and began to destroy
them, cutting through the beautiful shining armour of the men of
Muir-na-locht till there was hardly a man but got shortening of life and
the sorrow of death, or that could go back to give news of the fight,
but only the three kings and a few of their people that made their
escape back to their ships. Diarmuid turned back then without wound or
hurt on him, and he went to where Crania and Muadhan were. They bade him
welcome, and Grania asked him did he hear any news of Finn and the
Fianna of Ireland, and he said he did not, and they ate their food and
spent the night there.

He rose up again with the ea