And one time after that again there came to Finn three bald red clowns, holding three red hounds in their hands, and three deadly spears.  And there was poison on their clothes and on their hands and their feet, and on everything they touched.  And Finn asked them who were they.  And they said they were three sons of Uar, son of Indast of the Tuatha de Danaan; and it was by a man of the Fianna, Caoilte son of Ronan, their father was killed in the battle of the Tuatha de Danaan on Slieve nan Ean, the Mountain of Birds, in the east.  “And let Caoilte son of Ronan give us the blood-fine for him now,” they said.  “What are your names?” said Finn.  “Aincel and Digbail and Espaid; Ill-wishing and Harm and Want are our names.  And what answer do you give us now, Finn?” they said.  “No one before me ever gave a blood-fine for a man killed in battle, and I will not give it,” said Finn.  “We will do revenge and robbery on you so,” said they.  “What revenge is that?” said Finn.  “It is what I will do,” said Aincel, “if I meet with two or three or four of the Fianna, I will take their feet and their hands from them.”  “It is what I will do,” said Digbail, “I will not leave a day without loss of a hound or a serving-boy or a fighting man to the Fianna of Ireland.”  “And I myself will be always leaving them in want of people, or of a hand, or of an eye,” said Espaid.  “Without we get some help against them,” said Caoilte, “there will not be one of us living at the end of a year.”  “Well,” said Finn, “we will make a dun and stop here for a while, for I will not be going through Ireland and these men following after me, till I find who are the strongest, themselves or ourselves.”

So the Fianna made little raths for themselves all about Slieve Mis, and they stopped there through a month and a quarter and a year.  And through all that time the three red bald-headed men were doing every sort of hurt and harm upon them.

But the three sons of the King of Iruath came to speak with Finn, and it is what they said:  “It is our wish, Finn, to send the hound that is with us to go around you three times in every day, and however many may be trying to hurt or to rob you, they will not have power to do it after that.  But let there be neither fire nor arms nor any other dog in the house he goes into,” they said.  “I will let none of these things go into the one house with him,” said Finn, “and he will go safe back to you.”  So every day the hound would be sent to Finn, having his chain of ridges of red gold around his neck, and he would go three times around Finn, and three times he would put his tongue upon him.  And to the people that were nearest to the hound when he came into the house it would seem like as if a vat of mead was being strained, and to others there would come the sweet smell of an apple garden.

And every harm and sickness the three sons of Uar would bring on the Fianna, the three sons of the King of Iruath would take it off them with their herbs and their help and their healing.