Then they raised the body out of the grave and looked at it, and it was all one bed of wounds.  And Lugh said:  “It was the death of an enemy the sons of Tuireann gave my dear father.”  And he gave him three kisses, and it is what he said:  “It is bad the way I am myself after this death, for I can hear nothing with my ears, and I can see nothing with my eyes, and there is not a living pulse in my heart, with grief after my father.  And you gods I worship,” he said, “it is a pity I not to have come here the time this thing was done.  And it is a great thing that has been done here,” he said, “the people of the gods of Dana to have done treachery on one another, and it is long they will be under loss by it and be weakened by it.  And Ireland will never be free from trouble from this out, east and west,” he said.

Then they put Cian under the earth again, and after that there was keening made over his grave, and a stone was raised on it, and his name was written in Ogham, And Lugh said:  “This hill will take its name from Cian, although he himself is stripped and broken.  And it was the sons of Tuireann did this thing,” he said, “and there will grief and anguish fall on them from it, and on their children after them.  And it is no lying story I am telling you,” he said; “and it is a pity the way I am, and my heart is broken in my breast since Cian, the brave man, is not living.”

Then he bade his people to go before him to Teamhair, “But do not tell the story till I tell it myself,” he said.

And when Lugh came to Teamhair he sat in the high seat of the king, and he looked about him and he saw the three sons of Tuireann.  And those were the three that were beyond all others at Teamhair at that time for quickness and skill, for a good hand in battle, for beauty and an honourable name.

Then Lugh bade his people to shake the chain of silence, and they did so, and they all listened.  And Lugh said:  “What are your minds fixed on at this time, Men of Dea?” “On yourself indeed,” said they.  “I have a question to ask of you,” he said.  “What is the vengeance each one of you would take on the man that would kill your father?”

There was great wonder on them when they heard that, and one of the chief men among them said:  “Tell us was it your own father that was killed?” “It was indeed,” said Lugh; “and I see now in this house,” he said, “the men that killed him, and they know themselves what way they killed him better than I know it.”  Then the king said:  “It is not a death of one day only I would give the man that had killed my father, if he was in my power, but to cut off one of his limbs from day to day till I would make an end of him.”  All the chief men said the same, and the sons of Tuireann like the rest.

“There are making that answer,” said Lugh, “the three men that killed my father; and let them pay the fine for him now, since you are all together in the one place.  And if they will not,” he said, “I will not break the protection of the king’s house, but they must make no attempt to quit this house till they have settled with me.”