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

CHAPTER II
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And Lugh listened, and they told him of the deed of the sons of Turenn.

Then Lugh searched for the place of a new grave, and when he had found it he caused it to be dug, and the body of his father was raised up, and Lugh saw that it was but a litter of wounds.

And he cried out: "O wicked and horrible deed!" and he kissed his father and said, "I am sick from this sight, my eyes are blind from it, my ears are deaf from it, my heart stands still from it.

Ye gods that I adore, why was I not here when this crime was done?
a man of the children of Dana slain by his fellows." And he lamented long and bitterly.

Then Kian was again laid in his grave, and a mound was heaped over it and a pillar-stone set thereon and his name written in Ogham, and a dirge was sung for him.
After that Lugh departed to Tara, to the Court of the High King, and he charged his people to say nothing of what had happened until he himself had made it known.
When he reached Tara with his victorious host the King placed Lugh at his own right hand before all the princes and lords of the Danaan folk.


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