And when they came to Brugh na Boinne, the nurse put a Druid mist around Finn and the Fianna, the way no one could know they were there.  Now the day before that, Osgar had parted from Diarmuid, and Diarmuid was out hunting by himself.  That was shown to the hag, and she took a drowned leaf having a hole in it, like the quern of a mill, and she rose with that by her enchantments on a blast of Druid wind over Diarmuid, and began to aim at him through the hole with deadly spears, till she had done him great harm, for all his arms and his clothing, and he could not make away he was so hard pressed.  And every danger he was ever in was little beside that danger.  And it is what he thought, that unless he could strike the old woman through the hole that was in the leaf, she would give him his death there and then.  And he lay down on his back, and the Gae Dearg, the Red Spear, in his hand, and he made a great cast of the spear, that it went through the hole, and the hag fell dead on the spot.  And he struck off her head and brought it back with him to Angus Og.

And the next morning early, Angus rose up, and he went where Finn was, and he asked would he make peace with Diarmuid, and Finn said he would.  And then he went to the King of Ireland to ask peace for Diarmuid, and he said he would agree to it.

And then he went back to where Diarmuid and Grania were, and asked him would he make peace with the High King and with Finn.  “I am willing,” said Diarmuid, “if they will give the conditions I will ask.”  “What conditions are those?” said Angus.

“The district my father had,” said Diarmuid, “that is, the district of Ui Duibhne, without right of hunting to Finn, and without rent or tribute to the King of Ireland, and with that the district of Dumhais in Leinster, for they are the best in Ireland, and the district of Ceis Corainn from the King of Ireland as a marriage portion with his daughter; and those are the conditions on which I will make peace with them.”  “Would you be peaceable if you got those conditions?” said Angus.  “It would go easier with me to make peace if I got them,” said Diarmuid.

Then Angus went with that news to where the King of Ireland was with Finn.  And they gave him all those conditions, and they forgave him all he had done through the whole of the time he had been in his hiding, that was sixteen years.

And the place Diarmuid and Grania settled in was Rath Grania, in the district of Ceis Corainn, far away from Finn and from Teamhair.  And Grania bore him children there, four sons and one daughter.  And they lived there in peace, and the people used to be saying there was not a man living at the same time was richer as to gold and to silver, as to cattle and to sheep, than Diarmuid.

CHAPTER VIII.  THE BOAR OF BEINN GULBAIN

But at last one day Grania spoke to Diarmuid, and it is what she said, that it was a shame on them, with all the people and the household they had, and all their riches, the two best men in Ireland never to have come to the house, the High King, her father, and Finn, son of Cumhal.  “Why do you say that, Grania,” said Diarmuid, “and they being enemies to me?”