ard 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.

Now it was shown at this time to Angus Og, at Brugh na Boinne, the great
danger Diarmuid was in, that was his pupil at one time, and his dear
foster-son. He set out then with the clear cold wind, and did not stop
in any place till he came to Doire-da-Bhoth. And he went unknown to Finn
or the Fianna into the place where Diarmuid and Grania were, and he
spoke kind words to Diarmuid, and he said: "What is the thing you have
done, grandson of Duibhne?" "It is," said Diarmuid, "the daughter of the
King of Ireland that has made her escape with me from her father and
from Finn, and it is not by my will she came." "Let each of you come
under a border of my cloak, so," said Angus, "and I will bring you out
of the place where you are without knowledge of Finn or his people."
"Bring Grania with you," said Diarmuid, "but I will never go with you;
but if I am alive I will follow you before long. And if I do not," he
said, "give Grania to her father, and he will do well or ill to her."

With that Angus put Grania under the border of his cloak, and brought
her out unknown to Finn or the Fianna, and there is no news told of them
till they came to Ros-da-Shoileach, the Headland of the Two Sallows.

And as to Diarmuid, after Angus and Grania going from him, he stood up
as straight as a pillar and put on his armour and his arms, and after
that he went to a door of the seven doors he had made, and he asked who
was at it. "There is no enemy to you here," they said, "for there are
here Oisin and Osgar and the best men o