Transactions of the Ossianic Society
- ISBN-10
- 123016460X
- ISBN-13
- 9781230164601
- Pages
- 64
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Rarebooksclub.com
- Author
- Ossianic Society
Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... he caused the seven battalions of the standing Fenians to assemble to one place, and he went his ways to Dubhros of Ui Fhiachrach; and followed Diarmuid's track to the foot of the quicken tree, and found the berries without any watch upon them, so that they all ate their fill of them. The great heat i.e. the heat of the noon day then overtook them, and Fionn said that he would stay at the foot of the quicken till that heat should be past; "for I know that Diarmuid is in the top of the quicken." "It is a great sign of envy1 in thee, 0 Fionn, to suppose that tlmt Diarmuid would be in ucli a place Diarniuid would abide in the top of the quicken and he knowing that thou art intent on slaying him," said Oisin. After they had made this speech Fionn asked for a chessboard to play, and he said to Oisin, " I would play a game with thee upon this chess-board." They sit down at either side of the board; namely, Oisin, and Oscar, and the son of Lughaidh, and Diorruing the son of Dobhar O'Baoisgne on one side, and Fionn upon the other side. Howbeit they were playing that game of chess1 with skill and exceeding cunning, and Fionn so played the game against Oisin that he had but one move alone to make, and what Fionn said was: "One move there is to win thee the game, 0 Oisin, and I dare all that are by thee to shew thee that, move." Then said Diarmuid in the hearing of Grainne: " I grieve that thou art thus in a strait about a move, 0 Oisin, and that I am not there to teach thee that move." "It is worse for thee that thou art thyself," said Grainne, "in the bed of the Searbhan Lochlannach, in the top of the quicken, with the seven battalions of the standing Fenians round about thee...
