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The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland

CHAPTER II
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To this they all agreed, and the Sons of Turenn were invited to come ashore, where they were courteously and hospitably entertained in the King's palace.

On the morrow the pigs were given to them, and great was their gladness, for never before had they won a treasure without toil and blood.

And they vowed that, if they should live, the name of Asal should be made by them a great and shining name, for his compassion and generosity which he had shown them.

This, then, was the fifth quest of the Sons of Turenn.
"And whither do ye voyage now ?" said Asal to them.
"We go," said they, "to Iorroway for the hound's whelp which is there." "Take me with you, then," said Asal, "for the King of Iorroway is husband to my daughter, and I may prevail upon him to grant you the hound without combat." So the King's ship was manned and provisioned, and the Sons of Turenn laid up their treasures in the Boat of Mananan, and they all sailed joyfully forth to the pleasant kingdom of Iorroway.
But here, too, they found all the coasts and harbours guarded, and entrance was forbidden them.

Then Asal declared who he was, and him they allowed to land, and he journeyed to where his son-in-law, the King of Iorroway, was.


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