Sacred Texts: The Classics

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12e. The Slaughter of The Boy-Troop Now the youths of Ulster discussed the matter among themselves in Emain Macha. "Alas for us," said they, "that our friend Cuchulain has no one to succour him!" "I would ask then," spake Fiachu Fulech ('the Bloody') son of Ferfebè and own brother to Fiachu Fialdana ('the Generous-daring') son of Ferfebè, "shall I have a company from you to go to him with help?" Thrice fifty youths accompany him with their play-clubs, and that was a third of the boy-troop of…

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