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 Was it Scathach? There were many Queens. All the rulers there were Queens.

FINTAIN. No, not Scathach.

CUCHULLAIN. It was Uathach then. Speak, speak!

FINTAIN. I cannot speak, you are clutching me too tightly. (Cuchullain lets him go.) I cannot remember who it was. I am not certain. It was some Queen.

BARACH. He said a while ago that the young man was Aoife's son.

CUCHULLAIN. She? No, no, she had no son when I was there.

BARACH. That blind man there said that she owned him for her son.

CUCHULLAIN. I had rather he had been some other woman's son. What father had he? A soldier out of Alba? She was an amorous woman, a proud pale amorous woman.

FINTAIN. None knew whose son he was.

CUCHULLAIN. None knew? Did you know, old listener at doors? 60