Cuchulainn left them thus.  A party was sent from Ailill and Medb to seek out their folk, for they thought they were long; they were seen in this position.  All this was heard throughout the camp.  There was no truce for them with Cuchulainn afterwards.

The Combat of Munremar and Curoi

When the hosts were there in the evening; they saw that one stone lighted on them from the east, and another from the west to meet it.  They met in the air, and kept falling between Fergus’s camp, and Ailill’s, and Era’s. [Note:  Or Nera?] This sport and play went on from that hour to the same hour next day; and the hosts were sitting down, and their shields were over their heads to protect them against the masses of stones, till the plain was full of the stones.  Hence is Mag Clochair.  It happened that Curoi Mac Daire did this; he had come to help his comrades, and he was in Cotal over against Munremar Mac Gerrcind.  He had come from Emain Macha to help Cuchulainn, and he was in Ard Roich.  Curoi knew that there was no man in the host who could withstand Munremar.  So it was these two who had made this sport between them.  They were asked by the host to be quiet; then Munremar and Curoi make peace, and Curoi goes to his house and Munremar to Emain Macha.  And Munremar did not come till the day of the battle; Curoi did not come till the combat with Fer Diad.

‘Speak to Cuchulainn,’ said Medb and Ailill, ’that he allow us change of place.’

It is granted to them then, and they change the place.  The weakness of the Ulstermen was over then.  For when they awoke from their suffering, some of them kept coming on the host, that they might take to slaying them again.

The Death of the Boys

Then the boys of Ulster had consulted in Emain Macha.

‘Wretched indeed,’ said they, ’for our friend Cuchulainn to be without help.’

‘A question indeed,’ said Fiachna Fulech Mac Fir-Febe, own brother to Fiacha Fialdama Mac Fir-Febe, ’shall I have a troop among you, and go to take help to him therefrom?’

Three fifties of boys go with their playing-clubs, and that was a third of the boys of Ulster.  The host saw them coming towards them across the plain.

‘A great host is at hand to us over the plain,’ said Ailill.

Fergus goes to look at them.  ‘Some of the boys of Ulster that,’ said he; ‘and they come to Cuchulainn’s help.’

‘Let a troop go against them,’ said Ailill, ’without Cuchulainn’s knowledge; for if they meet him, you will not withstand them.’

Three fifties of warriors go to meet them.  They fell by one another so that no one escaped alive of the abundance(?) of the boys at Lia Toll.  Hence it is the Stone of Fiachra Mac Fir-Febe; for it is there he fell.

‘Make a plan,’ said Ailill.

’Ask Cuchulainn about letting you go out of this place, for you will not come beyond him by force, because his flame of valour has sprung.’