All the Fianna were gone on the track of the beast while Finn was talking and fighting with the Red Woman; and he did not know in what place they were, but he went following after them, himself and Bran.  It was late in the evening when he came up with a share of them, and they still on the track of the beast.  The darkness of the night was coming on, but the two moons in the sides of the beast gave a bright light, and they never lost it from sight.  They followed it on always; and about midnight they were pressing on it, and it began to scatter blood after it, and it was not long till Finn and his men were red from head to foot.  But that did not hinder them, and they followed him on till they saw him going in at the foot of Cnoc-na-righ at the breaking of day.

When they came to the foot of the hill the Red Woman was standing there before them.  “You did not take the beast,” she said.  “We did not take it, but we know where it is,” said Finn.

She took a Druid rod then, and she struck a blow on the side of the hill, and on the moment a great door opened, and they heard sweet music coming from within.  “Come in now,” said the Red Woman, “till you see the wonderful beast.”  “Our clothing is not clean,” said Finn, “and we would not like to go in among a company the way we are,” he said.

She put a horn to her mouth and blew it, and on the moment there came ten young men to her.  “Bring water for washing,” she said, “and four times twenty suits of clothes, and a beautiful suit and a crown of shining stones for Finn, son of Cumhal.”  The young men went away then, and they came back at the end of a minute with water and with clothing.

When the Fianna were washed and dressed, the Red Woman brought them into a great hall, where there was the brightness of the sun and of the moon on every side.  From that she brought them into another great room; and although Finn and his men had seen many grand things up to that time, they had never seen any sight so grand as what they saw in this place.  There was a king sitting in a golden chair, having clothes of gold and of green, and his chief people were sitting around him, and his musicians were playing.  And no one could know what colour were the dresses of the musicians, for every colour of the rainbow was in them.  And there was a great table in the middle of the room, having every sort of thing on it, one better than another.

The king rose up and gave a welcome to Finn and to his men, and he bade them to sit down at the table; and they ate and drank their fill, and that was wanting to them after the hunt they had made.  And then the Red Woman rose up, and she said:  “King of the Hill, if it is your will, Finn and his men have a mind to see the wonderful beast, for they spent a long time following after it, and that is what brought them here.”

The king struck a blow then on his golden chair, and a door opened behind him, and the beast came through it and stood before the king.  And it stooped down before him, and it said:  “I am going on towards my own country now; and there is not in the world a runner so good as myself, and the sea is the same to me as the land.  And let whoever can come up with me come now,” it said, “for I am going.”