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The Death of the Sons of Usnech. 177
and the men of Con naught, on account of the drove of kine
which Fergus took from them, and for every other hardship t*j& {
of theirs, so that the destructions and the hardships which they
wrought one against the other were so great that the books
written on them are tedious to read.
Of Deirdre's Death here.
727. As to Deirdre, when those deeds came to pass she
\pf£ was near Conchobar in the household throughout a year after
the slaying of the Children of Usnech. And though it might
be a little thing to raise her head, or to make a laugh over
her lip, she never did it during that space of time. As Con-
chobar saw that neither game nor mildness profited her, and
that neither jesting nor pleasant exaltation put courage into her
nature, he gave_notice to Eogan son of Durthacht, prince of At~J-
Fernmagh; and some of the historians say that it was this
Eogan who had slain Naisi at Emain Macha. And after Eogan
had come to Conchobar's place, Conchobar said to Deirdre, that
since he himself had not been able to turn her nature from her
grief, that she would have to go for another spell with Eogan.
And with that she is put behind Eogan into his chariot, and
Conchobar goes (also) to give her away. And as they were proceed-
^(ing she^cast a glance upon Eogan in front of her, fiercely, and
a glance on Conchobar behind her, for there were not in the
world two whom she hated more than they together.
Now when Conchobar perceived (this) as he was looking
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at her and at Eogan, he said to her, in jest. "Ah Deirdre,"
saith he, "it is the glance of a ewe between two rams which
thou castest on me and on Eogan!" When Deirdre heard that,
she made a start at that word, and gave a leap out of the
chariot, and struck her head against the rocks of stones that
wjere before her, and made fragments of her head, so that her
brain leapt suddenly out. And thus came Deirdre's death.
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