So they looked at the child, and there was no scratch or mark of a tooth on him at all.  Then the Steward put Finn under the destroying bonds of the Druid cave of Cruachan, to give him knowledge of who it was killed his son.  And Finn asked for a chess-board, and for water to be brought to him, in a basin of pale gold, and he searched, and it was shown to him truly that it was Donn had killed the Steward’s son between his two knees.  When Finn knew that, he said he would take the fine on himself; but the Steward would not consent to that, but forced him to tell who was it had done him the wrong.  And when he knew it was Donn had killed the child, he said:  “There is no man in the house it is easier to get satisfaction from than from him, for his own son is here, and I have but to put him between my two knees, and if I let him go from me safe, I will forgive the death of my son.”  Angus was vexed at what the Steward said, and as to Donn, he thought to strike his head off till Finn put him back from him.  Then the Steward came again, having a Druid rod with him, and he struck his own son with the rod, and he made of him a wild boar, without bristle or ear or tail, and he said:  “I put you under bonds to bring Diarmuid, grandson of Duibhne, to his death; and your own life will be no longer than his life,” he said.  With that the wild boar rose up and ran out of the open door; and he was called afterwards the Boar of Slieve Guillion, and it was by him Diarmuid came to his death at the last.

And when Diarmuid came to his full strength he was given a place among the Fianna of Ireland; and all women loved him, and he did many great deeds, fighting with the enemies of the Fianna and of Ireland; and one time he fought a wild ox through the length of seven days and seven nights on the top of the Mountain of Happiness.

CHAPTER II.  HOW DIARMUID GOT HIS LOVE-SPOT

Diarmuid and Conan and Goll and Osgar went one day hunting, and they went so far they could not get home in the evening, and they spent the first part of the night walking through the woods and pulling berries and eating them.  And when it was about midnight they saw a light, and they went towards it, and they found a little house before them, and the light shining from it.  They went in then, and they saw an old man there, and he bade them welcome, and he called them all by their names.  And they saw no one in the house but the old man and a young girl and a cat.  And the old man bade the girl to make food ready for the Fianna of Ireland, for there was great hunger on them.