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nteen years are complete to-day.' (What follows is a separate version [Note: The next episode, the Death of Fraech, is not given in LL.] to the death of Orlam.) 'Let us go forth now,' said Ailill. Then they reached Mag Mucceda. Cuchulainn cut an oak before them there, and wrote an ogam in its side. It is this that was therein: that no one should go past it till a warrior should leap it with one chariot. They pitch their tents there, and come to leap over it in their chariots. There fall thereat thirty horses, and thirty chariots are broken. Belach n-Ane, that is the name of that place for ever. _The Death of Fraech_ They are there till next morning; then Fraech is summoned to them. 'Help us, O Fraech,' said Medb. 'Remove from us the strait that is on us. Go before Cuchulainn for us, if perchance you shall fight with him.' He set out early in the morning with nine men, till he reached Ath Fuait. He saw the warrior bathing in the river. 'Wait here,' said Fraech to his retinue, 'till I come to the man yonder; not good is the water,' said he. He took off his clothes, and goes into the water to him. 'Do not come to me,' said Cuchulainn. 'You will die from it, and I should be sorry to kill you.' 'I shall come indeed,' said Fraech, 'that we may meet in the water; and let your play with me be fair.' 'Settle it as you like,' said Cuchulainn. 'The hand of each of us round the other,' said Fraech. They set to wrestling for a long time on the water, and Fraech was submerged. Cuchulainn lifted him up again. 'This time,' said Cuchulainn, 'will you yield and accept your life?' [Note: Lit. 'will you acknowledge your saving?'] 'I will not suffer it,' said Fraech. Cuchulainn put him under it again, until Fraech was killed. He comes to land; his retinue carry his body to the camp. Ath Fraich, that was the name of that ford for ever. All the host lamented Fraech. They saw a troop of women in green tunics [Note: Fraech was descended from the people of the Sid, his mother Bebind being a fairy woman. Her sister was Boinn (the river Boyne).] on the body of Fraech Mac Idaid; they drew him from them into the mound. Sid Fraich was the name of that mound afterwards. Fergus springs over the oak in his chariot. They go till they reach Ath Taiten; Cuchulainn destroys six of them there: that is, the six Dungals of Irress. Then they go on to Fornocht. Medb had a whelp named Baiscne. Cuchulainn throws a ca
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