And after a while they said it was time for them to go and look for the rest of the great fine that was on them, and they asked one another what way should they go.  “We will go to the King of the Island of Siogair,” said Brian, “for it is with him are the two horses and the chariot the Ildanach asked of us.”

They went forward then and brought the spear with them, and it is proud the three champions were after all they had done.  And they went on till they were come to the court of the King of Siogair.

“It is what we will do this time,” said Brian, “we will go in with the appearance of paid soldiers from Ireland, and we will make friends with the king, the way we will get to know in what place the horses and the chariot are kept.”  And when they had settled on that they went forward to the lawn before the king’s house.

The king and the chief men that were with him rose up and came through the fair that was going on there, and they saluted the king, and he asked who were they.  “We are trained fighting men from Ireland,” they said, “and we are earning wages from the kings of the world.”  “Is it your wish to stop with me for a while?” said the king.  “That is what we are wanting,” said they.  So then they made an agreement and took service with him.

They stopped in the court a fortnight and a month, and they never saw the horses through that time.  Then Brian said:  “This is a bad way we are in, to have no more news of the horses now than the first day we came to the place.”  “What is best for us to do now?” said his brothers.  “Let us do this,” said Brian, “let us take our arms and gather our things together, and go to the king and tell him we will leave the country and this part of the world unless he will show us those horses.”

So they went to the king that very day, and he asked them what did they mean by getting themselves ready for a journey.  “You will hear that, high king,” said Brian; “it is because trained fighting men from Ireland, like ourselves, have always trust put in them by the kings they guard, and we are used to be told the secrets and the whispers of any person we are with, and that is not the way you have treated us since we came to you.  For you have two horses and a chariot that are the best in the world, as we have been told, and we have not been given a sight of them yet.”  “It would be a pity you to go on that account,” said the king, “when I would have showed them to you the first day, if I had known you had a wish to see them.  And if you have a mind to see them now,” he said, “you may see them; for I think there never came soldiers from Ireland to this place that were thought more of by myself and by my people than yourselves.”

He sent for the horses then, and they were yoked to the chariot, and their going was as fast as the cold spring wind, and the sea was the same as the land to them.

And Brian was watching the horses closely, and on a sudden he took hold of the chariot and took the chariot driver out and dashed him against the nearest rock, and made a leap into his place himself, and made a cast of the Persian spear at the king, that went through his heart.  And then he and his brothers scattered the people before them, and brought away the chariot.