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| | The Wooing of Etain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | A chariot worth seven cumals," said Midir, "and a mantle befitting me, and the fairest maiden in Ireland." "I have," said the Mac Oc, "the chariot, and the mantle befitting thee." "There is moreover," said Midir, "the maiden that surpasses all the maidens in Ireland in form." "Where is she?" said the Mac Oc. |
 | | She was wise and prudent and skilled in the knowledge and magic power of the Tuatha De Danann, for the wizard [druid] Bresal had reared her until she was betrothed to Midir. |
 | | Meanwhile Fuamnach came by a circuitous way until she was in the Brug, and she sent the same blast on Etain, which carried her out of her sun- bower on the very flight she had been on before for the space of seven years throughout Ireland. |
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