. The book of romance; . n with me. Thereupon Ossian and Dearing were led by the Kingto the dwelling of the women, and they found Granialying on a high couch. Here, 0 Grania, said the King,are two of the men of Fionn, the son of Cumhaill, andthey have come to ask you as wife for him. AVhat isyour answer ? If he be a fitting son-in-law for you, why should he notbe a fitting husband for me ? said Grania. And at herwords, her father ordered a banquet to be made in thepalace for Ossian and Dearing, and sent them back toEionn with a message summoning him to a tryst in afortnights time. When Ossian
. The book of romance; . n with me. Thereupon Ossian and Dearing were led by the Kingto the dwelling of the women, and they found Granialying on a high couch. Here, 0 Grania, said the King,are two of the men of Fionn, the son of Cumhaill, andthey have come to ask you as wife for him. AVhat isyour answer ? If he be a fitting son-in-law for you, why should he notbe a fitting husband for me ? said Grania. And at herwords, her father ordered a banquet to be made in thepalace for Ossian and Dearing, and sent them back toEionn with a message summoning him to a tryst in afortnights time. When Ossian and Dearing were returned into Kildare,they found Eionn and his men, the Eenians, on the hillof Allen, and they told their tale from the beginning toend. And the heart of Fionn grew light as he heard it,and the fortnight of waiting stretched long before everything wears away at last, and so did those fifteendays; and on the last, Fionn assembled seven battalionsof his Eenians from wherever they might be, and they. THE PURSUIT OF DIARMID 219 set forth in troops for the great plain where Cormac,King of Erin, had given them tryst. The King had made ready a splendid feast, and wel-comed the new-comers gladly, and they ate and dranktogether. When the feast was over the Druid Derry sangsongs before Grania, and she, knowing he was a man ofwisdom, asked him why Fionn had come thither. Ifyou know not that/ said the Druid, it is no wonder thatI know it not. I wish to learn it from you, answered Grania. * Well then, replied the Druid, it is to ask you forwife that he is come. I marvel, said Grania, that it is not for Ossian thathe asks me. For my father himself is not as old asFionn. But tell me, I pray you, who is that softlyspoken man with the curling black hair and ruddycountenance, that sits on the left hand of Ossian, the sonof Fionn ? That is Diarmid, son of Dowd, the best lover in thewhole world. It is a goodly company, said Grania, and ordered herlady to bring her the gold
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