' And that fear was ever upon him till the day when Conall
came red out of the Valley of the Thrush, and his track thence to
Rath-Amargin was one straight path of blood, and he with his
shield-arm hacked to the bone, his sword-arm swollen and bursting,
and the flame of his valour burning bright in his splendid eyes.
Then, for the first time, the old man smiled upon him, and he
said, 'That arm, my son, has done a man's work to-day.'"
CHAPTER XV
ACROSS THE MEARINGS AND AWAY
"Say, rushed the bold eagle exultingly forth.
From his home, in the dark rolling clouds of the North?"
CAMPBELL.
As for the boys, they proceeded joyfully after that pleasant
skirmish and friendly encounter, both on account of the
discomfiture of him who was reckoned the prime champion of the
Ultonians, and because they were at large in Erin, with no one to
direct them, or to whom they should render an account; and their
happiness, too, was increased by the mettle, power and gallant
action of the steeds, and by the clanking of the harness and the
brazen chains, and the ringing of the weapons of war, and the roar
of the revolving wheels, and owing to the velocity of their motion
and the rushing of the wind upon their temples and through their
hair.
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