The Tale of Vivionn the Giantess One day Finn and Goll, Keelta and Oscar, and others of the Fianna, were resting after the hunt on a certain hill now called the Ridge of the Dead Woman, and their meal was being got ready, when a girl of the kin of the giants came striding up and sat down among them.

"Didst thou ever see a woman so tall ?" asked Finn of Goll.

"By my troth," said Goll, "never have I or any other seen a woman so big." She took her hand out of her bosom and on her long slender fingers there were three gold rings each as thick as an ox's yoke.

"Let us question her," said Goll, and Finn said, "If we stood up, perchance she might hear us." So they all rose to their feet, but the giantess, on that, rose up too.

"Maiden," said Finn, "if thou have aught to say to us or to hear from us, sit down and lean thine elbow on the hill-side." So she lay down and Finn bade her say whence she came and what was her will with them.