Dubh, Dun Agus Liath
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In some mere darkened home
Finn was hunting
When three great heroes came
In search of him
"We are Gav, Donn and Lir
And we wish to serve you"
Finn then carved a tree
Into three and said
"Each of you will stay guard
For a part of the night
Until your piece of log has burned out"
Gav would grab, in a cup that could never empty
From an ancient house
Donn went out on the second watch
And saw a great house in flame
Round, mighty, inside it
Was a knife of division and work
Donn stole it quick
And turned back into the shadow
Lir took his flaming torch
For the third and final watch
He journeyed far into the night
Till he came to another house
The stench of death in the air
Bodies littered the hall
Fear consumed him
And he hid himself inside
Under the shields and bodies
Of those fallen warriors
There, Finn gained strength
A monstrous old hag came into the house
And began to eat the dead
One after one, she preferred
Fat and less to leave
When she was full, she fell asleep
And started on the bloody floor
Lir grabbed his mighty sword
And gored in his eye
He leapt quickly and killed her there and then
Three bodies fled from her corpse
Tied the first two with branches
The third escaped
Returning to Finn, the tree told all the tales
Finn thanked Gav and Donn, but told Lir
"Would it be best to leave the hag be?
I fear the third man may be trouble"
In some mere darkened home
Finn now King sits with the Fjรถlnir
This is only the beginning of his story
Warriors, dead and gone
Stags roam the countryside
And the wind sings of the past