One would
have said that the bronze burned. It was of great size and beauty.
By its side were two horse-stalls with racks and mangers, the bars
of the rack were of gold bronze which was called findruiney, and
the mangers of yellow brass. The floor was paved with cut marble,
the walls lined with smooth boards of ash. There were no windows,
but there were nine lamps in the room. "It will be thy duty to
feed those lamps," said Concobar.
Concobar took the fawn-skin towel from the boy and polished the
chariot, and the wheels, tyres, and boxes, and the wheel-spokes.
He oiled the wheels too, and mightily lifting the great chariot
seized the spokes with his right hand and made the wheels spin.
"Go now to the chamber of which I have given thee the keys," he
said, "and bring the buckets, and clear out the mangers to the
last grain, and empty the stale barley into the place of the
burning, and afterwards take fresh barley from the bin which is in
the chamber and fill the mangers. Empty the racks also and bring
fresh hay. Thou wilt find it stored there too; clean straw also
and litter the horse-stalls.
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