We all now seized what arms we could and ran out to drive away the enchanter, but when we reached the place there was nothing to be seen, only still we heard the rushing of flying feet and the baying of dogs, and one thought it came from here, and another from there, till at last the uproar died away and all was still.

What we could do, O Finn, we did; Saba is gone." Finn then struck his hand on his breast but spoke no word, and he went to his own chamber.

No man saw him for the rest of that day, nor for the day after.

Then he came forth, and ordered the matters of the Fianna as of old, but for seven years thereafter he went searching for Saba through every remote glen and dark forest and cavern of Ireland, and he would take no hounds with him save Bran and Sceolaun.

But at last he renounced all hope of finding her again, and went hunting as of old.