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 Conor came into the house with three times fifty warriors, so that he struck the head from Mani with his seven times twenty.

Conor left behind him in the house his people in the manner of war; Beside himself and Brod none of them escaped to report of it.

The same woman, westwards to Maev, spoke a message that was not long: "Conor has slain thy son. Evil the hour when he went to the war with him."

Maev went forth from the west to war with seven hundred men with weapons. They warred face to face on the plains of Ulster against Conor.

Maev slew there on the plain seven men in the manner of war with her own hand, better than any hero, including the two sons of Conor.