Diarmid. 'If I live, then will I follow you,
but if not, carry her to her father, and let him deal with her as
seems good.'

After that Angus put Grania under his mantle and they went their ways,
and neither Fionn nor his Fenians knew of it.

When Angus and Grania had left him, Diarmid girded his arms upon him,
and standing at one of the seven wattled doors, asked who stood
behind. 'No foe to you,' answered a voice, 'but Ossian, the son of
Fionn, and Oscar, the son of Ossian, and others who are your friends.
Come out, and none will do you hurt.'

'I will not open the door until I find out where Fionn himself is.'
And so it befel at six of the doors, and Diarmid would not open them,
lest his friends should come under the wrath of Fionn. But as he drew
near the seventh, and put his question, the answer came loud: 'Here
are Fionn, the son of Cumhaill, and four hundred of his servants, and
we bear you no love, and if you come out we will tear your bones in
sunder.'

'I pledge my word,' said Diarmid, 'that yours is the first door by
which I will pass,' and he rose into the air on the shafts of his
javelins, with a bound as light as a bird's, and went far beyond Fionn
and his people, and they knew nothing of it. Then he looked back and
shouted that he had got the better of them, and followed after the
track of Angus and Grania.

He found them warm in a hut with a fire in it, watching a wild boar
roasting on a spit, and Grania's soul almost left her body for joy at
seeing Diarmid. They told their stories before the fire, and when
morning broke Angus rose and said to Diarmid, 'I must now depart, O
son of O'Dowd, and this counsel I leave you. Go not into a tree having
but one trunk, when you fly before Fionn. And go not to a cave of the
earth having only one door, or to an island which can only be reached
by one channel. And in whatever place you cook your meal, there eat it
not; and in whatever place you eat, there lie not; and in whatever
place you lie down to sleep, there rise not on the morrow.' So saying,
he bade them farewell, and went his way.

The next day Diarmid and Grania journeyed up the Shannon, and they
killed a salmon, and crossed the river to eat it, as Angus had told
them. Soon they met a youth called Muadan, who wished to take service
with them; and he was strong, and carried them over the rivers across
their path. When evening came they found a cave, where Muadan spread
out soft rushes and birch twigs