{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/cool/cool24b.htm","path":"neu/cool/cool24b.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/cool/cool24b.htm","text":"24b. The Agitation of Celtchar\nIt was then that Celtchar in his sleep uttered these words in the midst of the men of Ulster in Iraird Cuillinn that night:\n\"Thirty hundred chariot-men;\nAn hundred horse-companions stout;\nAn hundred with an hundred druids!\nTo lead us will not fail\nThe hero of the land,\nConchobar with hosts around him!\nLet the battle line be formed!\nGather now, ye warriors!\nBattle shall be fought\nAt Garech and Ilgarech\nOn aftermorrow's morn!\"\nOn that same night Cormac Conlongas, Conchobar's son, spake these words to the men of Erin at Slemain Mide that night:\n\"A wonder of a morning,\nA wondrous I time!\nWhen hosts will be confused,\nKings turned back in flight!\nNecks will be broken,\nThe sand made red,\nWhen forth breaks the battle, the seven chieftains before,\nOf Ulster's host round Conchobar!\nTheir women will they defend,\nFor their herds will they fight\nAt Garech and Ilgarech,\nOn the morning after the morrow! \"\nOn that same night, Dubthach Doel ('the Scorpion') of Ulster uttered these words in his sleep among the men of Erin at Slemain Mide that night:\n\"Great be the morn,\nThe morn of Meath!\nGreat be the truce\nThe truce of Culenn!\n\"Great be the fight,\nThe fight Of Clartha!\nGreat, too, the steeds,\nThe steeds of Assal!\n\"Great be the plague,\nThe plague of Tuath-Bressi!\nGreat be the storm,\nUlster's battle-storm round Conchobar!\n\"Their women will they defend,\nFor their herds will they fight\nAt Garech and Ilgarech,\nOn the morning after the morrow!\"\nDubthach was awakened from his sleep, so that Nemain brought confusion on the host and they fell trembling in their arms under the points of their spears and weapons, so that an hundred warriors of them fell dead in the midst of their camp and quarters at the fearfulness of the shout they heard on high. Be that as it would, that night was not the calmest for the men of Erin that they passed before or since, because of the forebodings and predictions and because of the spectres and visions that were revealed to them.","title":"24b. The Agitation of Celtchar","type":"page"}