With that the beast went out from the hill as quick as a blast of wind, and all the people that were in it went following after it.  It was not long till Finn and his men were before the rest, in the front of the hunt, gaining on the beast.

And about midday Bran made the beast turn, and then she forced it to turn a second time, and it began to put out cries, and it was not long until its strength began to flag; and at last, just at the setting of the sun, it fell dead, and Bran was at its side when it fell.

Then Finn and his men came up, but in place of a beast it was a tall man they saw lying dead before them.  And the Red Woman came up at the same time, and she said:  “High King of the Fianna, that is the King of the Firbolgs you have killed; and his people will put great troubles on this country in the time to come, when you yourself, Finn, and your people will be under the sod.  And I myself am going now to the Country of the Young,” she said, “and I will bring you with me if you have a mind to come.”  “We give you our thanks for that,” said Finn, “but we would not give up our own country if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.”  “That is well,” said the Red Woman; “but you are going home empty after your hunt.”  “It is likely we will find a deer in Gleann-na-Smol,” said Finn.  “There is a fine deer at the foot of that tree beyond,” said the Red Woman, “and I will rouse it for you.”  With that she gave a cry, and the deer started out and away, and Finn and his men after it, and it never stopped till it came to Gleann-na-Smol, but they could not come up with it.  Then the Red Woman came to them, and she said:  “I think you are tired now with following after the deer; and call your hounds off now,” she said, “and I will let out my own little dog after it.”  So Finn sounded a little horn he had at his side, and on the moment the hounds came back to him.  And then the Red Woman brought out a little hound as white as the snow of the mountains, and put it after the deer; and it was not long till it had come up with the deer and killed it, and then it came back and made a leap in under the cloak of the Red Woman.  There was great wonder on Finn; but before he could ask a question of the Red Woman, she was gone out of sight.  And as to the deer, Finn knew there was enchantment on it, and so he left it there after him.  And it is tired and empty the Fianna were, going back to Almhuin that night.

CHAPTER XIII.  FINN AND THE PHANTOMS

Finn went to a gathering one time at Aonach Clochair, and a great many of the men of Munster crowded to it.  And the horses of the Fianna were brought there, and the horses of the men of Munster, and they ran races against one another.

And Fiachu, son of Eoghan, was in it; and when the games were over he gave good presents to Finn, a lasting black horse that won the three prizes of the gathering, and a chariot, and a horse for the chariot-driver, and a spear, having a deadly spell, and weapons of silver, and three comely hounds, Feirne and Derchaem and Dialath, having collars of yellow gold and chains of white bronze.