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HEROIC COMBAT IN ANCIENT IRELAND.
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"Break not with me thy vow not to combat,
Break not thy bond—break not friendship,
Break not thy pledged word.
"Unto fifty champions has Findabar been proffered, —
By me they have been sent to their graves."
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| SLEGH. Tuatha Dé Danann Spears. (See page 177.) | ||
And he urges Ferdiad by all the dear old ties between them not to enter on the combat:—
"We were heart-companions,
We were comrades in assemblies,
We were fellows of the same bed,
Where we used to sleep the deep sleep.
To hard battles,
