So Osgar told Bran, and Bran understood him well, and she went to the rear of the whole troop the way Finn would not see her, and she followed on the track of Diarmuid and Grania till she came to Doire-da-Bhoth, and she put her head into Diarmuid’s bosom, and he in his sleep.

Diarmuid started up out of his sleep then, and he awoke Grania, and said to her:  “Here is Bran, Finn’s hound, and she is come with a warning to tell us Finn himself is coming.”  “Let us take that warning, then,” said Grania, “and make your escape.”  “I will not take it,” said Diarmuid, “for if I cannot escape Finn, I would as soon he took me now as at any other time.”  When Grania heard that, great fear came on her.

Bran went away from them then, and when Oisin saw her coming back, he said:  “I am in dread Bran found no chance to get to Diarmuid, and we should send him some other warning.  And look where is Fearghoin,” he said, “Caoilte’s serving-man.”  Now it was the way with Fearghoin, every shout he would give would be heard in the three nearest hundreds to him.  So they made him give out three shouts the way Diarmuid would hear him.  And Diarmuid heard him, and he said to Grania:  “I hear Caoilte’s serving-man, and it is with Caoilte he is, and it is along with Finn Caoilte is, and those shouts were sent as a warning to me.”  “Take that warning,” said Grania.  “I will not take it,” said Diarmuid, “for Finn and the Fianna will come up with us before we leave the wood.”  And fear and great dread came on Grania when she heard him say that.

As for Finn, he did not leave off following the track till he came to Doire-da-Bhoth, and he sent the sons of Neamhuin to search through the wood, and they saw Diarmuid, and the woman along with him.  They came back then where Finn was, and he asked them were Diarmuid and Grania in the wood?  “Diarmuid is in it,” they said, “and there is some woman with him, but we knew Diarmuid, and we do not know Grania.”  “May no good come to the friends of Diarmuid for his sake,” said Finn, “and he will not quit that wood till he has given me satisfaction for everything he has done to me.”

“It is jealousy has put you astray, Finn,” said Oisin; “you to think Diarmuid would stop here on the plain of Maen Mhagh, and no close place in it but Doire-da-Bhoth, and you following after him.”  “Saying that will do you no good,” said Finn, “for I knew well when I heard the three shouts Caoilte’s serving-man gave out, it was you sent them to Diarmuid as a warning.  And another thing,” he said, “it was you sent my own hound Bran to him.  But none of those things you have done will serve you, for he will not leave Doire-da-Bhoth till he gives me satisfaction for everything he has done to me, and every disgrace he has put on me.”  “It is great foolishness for you, Finn,” said Osgar then, “to be thinking Diarmuid would stop in the middle of this plain and you waiting here to strike the head off him.”  “Who but himself cut the wood this way,” said Finn, “and made this close sheltered place with seven woven narrow doors to it.  And O Diarmuid,” he said out then, “which of us is the truth with, myself or Oisin?” “You never failed from your good judgment, Finn,” said Diarmuid, “and indeed I myself and Grania are here.”  Then Finn called to his men to go around Diarmuid and Grania, and to take them.