There was another young man came and served Finn for a while; out of Connacht he came, and he was very daring, and the Red Ridge was the name they gave him.  And he all but went from Finn one time, because of his wages that were too long in coming to him.  And the three battalions of the Fianna came trying to quiet him, but he would not stay for them.  And at the last Finn himself came, for it is a power he had, if he would make but three verses he would quiet any one.  And it is what he said:  “Daring Red Ridge,” he said, “good in battle, if you go from me to-day with your great name it is a good parting for us.  But once at Rath Cro,” he said, “I gave you three times fifty ounces in the one day; and at Cam Ruidhe I gave you the full of my cup of silver and of yellow gold.  And do you remember,” he said, “the time we were at Rath Ai, when we found the two women, and when we ate the nuts, myself and yourself were there together.”

And after that the young man said no more about going from him.

And another helper came to Finn one time he was fighting at a ford, and all his weapons were used or worn with the dint of the fight.  And there came to him a daughter of Mongan of the Sidhe, bringing him a flat stone having a chain of gold to it.  And he took the stone and did great deeds with it.  And after the fight the stone fell into the ford, that got the name of Ath Liag Finn.

And that stone will never be found till the Woman of the Waves will find it, and will bring it to land on a Sunday morning; and on that day seven years the world will come to an end.

BOOK THREE:  THE BATTLE OF THE WHITE STRAND.

CHAPTER I. THE ENEMIES OF IRELAND

Of all the great battles the Fianna fought to keep the foreigners out of Ireland, the greatest was the one that was fought at Finntraigh the White Strand, in Munster; and this is the whole story of it, and of the way the Fianna came to have so great a name.

One time the enemies of Ireland gathered together under Daire Donn, High King of the Great World, thinking to take Ireland and to put it under tribute.

The King of Greece was of them, and the King of France, and the King of the Eastern World, and Lughman of the Broad Arms, King of the Saxons, and Fiacha of the Long Hair, King of the Gairean, and Tor the son of Breogan, King of the Great Plain, and Sligech, son of the King of the Men of Cepda, and Comur of the Crooked Sword, King of the Men of the Dog-Heads, and Caitchenn, King of the Men of the Cat-Heads, and Caisel of the Feathers, King of Lochlann, and Madan of the Bent Neck, son of the King of the Marshes, and three kings from the rising of the sun in the east, and Ogarmach, daughter of the King of Greece, the best woman-warrior that ever came into the world, and a great many other kings and great lords.

The King of the World asked then:  “Who is there can give me knowledge of the harbours of Ireland?” “I will do that for you, and I will bring you to a good harbour,” said Glas, son of Bremen, that had been put out of Ireland by Finn for doing some treachery.