{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/cool/cool08d.htm","path":"cla/cool/cool08d.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/cool/cool08d.htm","text":"8d. The Slaying Of Loch\u00e8\nThe warriors of four of the five grand provinces of Erin bided their time in Rede Loch\u00e8 in Cualnge and pitched camp and took quarters therein for that night. Medb bade her fair handmaiden from amongst her attendants to go for her to the river for water for drinking and washing. Loch\u00e8 was the name of the maiden. Thereupon Loch\u00e8 went, and fifty women in her train and the queen's diadem of gold on her head.\nAnd Cuchulain espied them and he put a stone on his sling and cast a stone from his staff-sling at her, so that he broke the diadem of gold in three pieces and killed the maiden on her plain. Thence is Red\u00e8 Loch\u00e8 ('the Plain of Loch\u00e8') in Cualnge. For Cuchulain had thought, for want of acquaintance and knowledge, that it was Medb that was there.","title":"cla/cool/cool08d.htm","type":"page"}