ed of them.

When Bres saw that, he gave himself up to Lugh's protection. "Give me my
life this time," he said, "and I will bring the whole race of the Fomor
to fight it out with you in a great battle; and I bind myself to that,
by the sun and the moon, the sea and the land," he said.

On that Lugh gave him his life, and then the Druids that were with him
asked his protection for themselves. "By my word," said Lugh, "if the
whole race of the Fomor went under my protection they would not be
destroyed by me." So then Bres and the Druids set out for their own
country.

Now as to Lugh and the sons of Tuireann. After the battle of Magh Mor an
Aonaigh, he met two of his kinsmen and asked them did they see his
father in the fight. "We did not," said they. "I am sure he is not
living," said Lugh; "and I give my word," he said, "there will no food
or drink go into my mouth till I get knowledge by what death my father
died."

Then he set out, and the Riders of the Sidhe after him, till they came
to the place where he and his father parted from one another, and from
that to the place where his father went into the shape of a pig when he
saw the sons of Tuireann.

And when Lugh came to that place the earth spoke to him, and it said:
"It is in great danger your father was here, Lugh, when he saw the sons
of Tuireann before him, and it is into the shape of a pig he had to go,
but it is in his own shape they killed him."

Then Lugh told that to his people, and he found the spot where his
father was buried, and he bade them dig there, the way he would know by
what death the sons of Tuireann had made an end of him.

Then they raised the body out of the grave and looked at it, and it was
all one bed of wounds. And Lugh said: "It was the death of an enemy the
sons of Tuireann gave my dear father." And he gave him three kisses, and
it is what he said: "It is bad the way I am myself after this death, for
I can hear nothing with my ears, and I can see nothing with my eyes, and
there is not a living pulse in my heart, with grief after my father. And
you gods I worship," he said, "it is a pity I not to have come here the
time this thing was done. And it is a great thing that has been done
here," he said, "the people of the gods of Dana to have done treachery
on one another, and it is long they will be under loss by it and be
weakened by it. And Ireland will never be free from trouble from this
out, east and west," he said.

Then they