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 CUCHULLAIN. The Kings are standing round his body.

FINTAIN. Did he fight long?

CUCHULLAIN. He thought to have saved himself with witchcraft.

BARACH. That blind man there said he would kill you. He came from Aoife's country to kill you. That blind man said they had taught him every kind of weapon that he might do it. But I always knew that you would kill him.

CUCHULLAIN. (to the blind man) You knew him then?

FINTAIN. I saw him when I had my eyes, in Aoife's country.

CUCHULLAIN. You were in Aoife's country?

FINTAIN. I knew him and his mother there.

CUCHULLAIN. He was about to speak of her when he died.

FINTAIN. He was a Queen's son.

CUCHULLAIN. What Queen, what Queen? (He seizes the blind man.) 59