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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Woe to Ulster where hospitality abounds." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Till he found a Druid to lift the weight." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Were it Furbaide of the heroes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The hound would search through th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mae Datho's Boar. Furbaide was a son of Conor; be is one of the eighteen leaders who assemble on the Hill of Slane in the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tain bo Cuailgne." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Awakening of Cuchulain" }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heavy sleep is decay, and no good thing; it is fatigue against a heavy war; it is 'milk for the satiated,' the sleep that is on thee; death-weakness is the tanist of death." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Colour of eyes his skin in the fight;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "apparently deriving the word from luath," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; but do chorcor glan would mean" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Each with splendid gold fastening well hooked through its eye, are literally" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The ears of a cloak, usually described as made of the peculiar white bronze, occur elsewhere in the tales, and there are different speculations as to their use...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; not" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Long rain of red blood at the side of the trees, a token of this proud and masterful, high with wailing is the sorrow for his fiend-like frenzy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hail to Cuchulain! King who brings help, great prince of Murthemne! great his mind; pomp of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wherefore now, O Emer! said Cuchulain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fair seems all that's red, &c., is literally" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was true and held my word, is in the original daig is misi rop iran. Iran is a doubtful word, if we take it as a form of aur-an, aur being the intensitive prefix, a better translation may be," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I myself was greatly glowing." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See the son of the hero people of the Sea." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Although (lit." }, { "from": "human", "value": ")" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That indeed is the course of love, apparently reading rot, a road, in place of ret; but ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Too hard have I been offended; Laeg, son of Riangabra, farewell, but there is no" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in the Irish. The lines seem to be:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed the offence was great, O Laeg, O thou son of Riangabra," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This then was a token given to Cuchulain that he should be destroyed by the People of the Mound, for the power of the demons was great before the advent of the Faith; so great was that power that the demons warred against men in bodily form, and they showed delights and secret t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the last line; the original is ingen fial. But the word might be more closely connected with fial," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Modest is not exactly the epithet that one would naturally apply to the Deirdre of the L...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Release me, O my wife! eirgg uaim a ben. It is suggested that the vocative ben is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "not" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It occurs in seven other places besides this in Windisch's Dictionary, and in six of these it means wife ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lament of Deirdre," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tain bo Cuailgne is given in the third volume of his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Manners and Customs," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou hast come out of every strife, which seems to be an impossible rendering;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take whatever is thy will" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is what thou wilt not earn, i.e." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can pay more than a full reward for thy services." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If my request be granted me I will advance, though I am not his match." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So that he may take the point of a weapon through him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will not keep back to please you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Emain's Hound towards us raceth, Guards his land, the fight he faceth, Every hue his body graceth:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As a hawk darts up from the furrow. O'Curry gives" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good is thy need of height." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Without valour, without strength." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whatever be the excellence of her beauty." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O Cuchulain! for beautiful feats renowned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O Cuchulain! who art a breeder of wounds (lit." }, { "from": "human", "value": ");" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O true warrior! O true (?accent probably omitted)" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is like thrusting a spear into sand or against the sun." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah that brooch of gold, and of that on page 144, commencing" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hound, of feats so fair," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O hero of strong-striking blows." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Triumphant was thine arm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go ye all to the swift battle that shall come to you from German the green-terrible" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thou ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "three of which are lost, is given in Miss Hull's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cuchullin Saga" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(remscela) than the Tain bo Fraich, which has indeed enough of interest in itself to make it an independent tale, and is as long as the four put together. All the five tales have been rendered into verse, with a prose literal translation opposite to the verse rendering, for reas...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Feis" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let a message from thee be sent to thy fairy kin To entreat their aid when we seek that maid; a boon we may chance to win: For the wondrous robes of the fairy land, and for gifts from the fairies plead; And sure thy mother's sister's hand will give to thee all thy need." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the unknown" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From yon plain comes, in fulness of numbers, A great army to Croghan's high walls; And, since Ailill the throne first ascended, Since the day we hailed Maev as our Queen, Never army so fair nor so splendid Yet hath come, nor its like shall be seen." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is Idath's son who is here, they said, and they gave him the name of Fraech. To Ailill and Maev went the steward back of the stranger's name to tell;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give him welcome, said they:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of a nobl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not for boasting to-day are ye come!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get ye food for the chiefs! said the king; said Maev," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not yet, 'tis my will to stay, To sit with the strangers, and here with Fraech in a match at the chess to play!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let thy game be played! s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These figures accordingly used to run," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Song that gives Sleep," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Uaithne," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was stately, said Fergus," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The food divide ye! Come, bring ye here the meat!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have conquered thee well at the chess! Yet I claim not the stake at the chess-board's side, lest thy palace's wealth be less." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For no lengthier day have I sat in such play, said Maev," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In friendship, For a visit, said Fraech," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And 'twas joy that we felt, when receiving This your host, said the king," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, said Fraech," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! thy speech hath brought me Joy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have fear, said the king," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then Fraech to the Hall of Debate returned, and he cried:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Through Some secret chink Hath a whisper passed? and the king replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come hither, O Maev, Ailill softly cried; And Queen Maev came up close to her husband's side" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dost thou know of that ring?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come not, said the king," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! how lovely he seemeth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ne'er was half such beauty, Naught its third came nigh!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! how heavy and fair have those clusters grown; bring us more, and he turned to swim; The mid-current was reached, but the dragon was roused that was guard to that rowan-tree; An...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is noble, this deed we have done! said Maev:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ailill cried:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "For the hurt of the man I repent, but to her, our daughter, shall woe betide! On the morrow her lips shall be pale, and none shal...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lift me, my folk, He cried," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Ban-Shee[FN#12] Wail," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ban Side," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now hie thee, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ": then he turned to the feast again, And the wine was drunk, and the revellers sunk, for the fumes of it seized their brain, And music and much of delights they had; but the king had his plans laid deep," }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll never throw My thoughts on other man!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now that oath will I take, answered back to them Fraech," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let there be a message then sent to thy mother's sister, so that a portion of wondrous robing and of gifts from the Side (fairy folk) be given thee from her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the unknown" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the usual word for a shoe. It is suggested that here it may be a caparison of leather:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the usual word for a shoe. It is suggested that here it may be a caparison of leather:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The manipulation and play that the young hero who is in it makes--I have not before seen its likeness. He shoots his pole a shot's discharge from him; before it reaches to earth the seven chase-hounds with their seven silver chains catch it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fraech, son of Idath this, say they. The steward tells it to the king and queen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Welcome to them, say Ailill and Maev;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is a noble youth who is there, says Ailill," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "translated apartments, really means" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome to you, say Ailill and Medb." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is that we have come for, says Fraech." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I accept, she says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is stately it has come, says Fergus." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Divide ye to us, says Fraech to his people," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is well I have played against thee (i.e. have beaten thee), he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I take not away thy stake from the chess-board that there be not a decay of hospitality for thee in it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Since I have be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stay for my conversing, he says;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am delighted truly, says the daughter;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Query, wouldst thou elope w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hidden spot" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The berries are stately and beautiful, bring us an addition of them. He goes off again until he was in the middle of the water. The serpent catches him out of the water." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let a swo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A great deed is what we have done, says Medb." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We repent, says Ailill," }, { "from": "human", "value": "he says," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fraech, son of Idath, says the woman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lift me out of it, he says to his people;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oo corastar tar cend," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Meyer takes literally," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go off, he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Inebriety seizes them, and music and amusement delight them. Ailill then said:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bring ye all my gems to me. They were brought to him then, so that the were before him." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Meyer gives" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems to me it was for proof that I left my girdle, says Fraech." }, { "from": "human", "value": "On the truth of the sovereignty, says Fraech," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It happened I did not leave it about me; I had left it in the house behind me. We met not until we met at the giving of the sword into my hand in the river. After that I saw the time thou open'st the purse and flungest the ring into the water: I saw the salmon which leaped for i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On thy way Thou hast tarried, and hard for thy slackness shalt pay! In the Alps of the south, the wild mountains amid, Have thy children, thy wife, and thy cattle been hid: And a three of thy kine have the Picts carried forth, And in Alba they pasture, but far to the north!" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said Conall," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "'Twill be long ere the goal thou art reaching, though thy heart in the seeking may be." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Conall Cernach,[FN#35] hear thou my beseeching said Fraech," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whence have come you? she said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Out of Ireland are we, Answered Conall:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ill luck shall for Irishmen be In this country, she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of this land we k...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Brewin." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ard Oon Ay-ha," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Leary." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not active (or lucky" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she says." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thy cows have been stolen, and thy three sons, and thy wife, so that they are in the mountain of Elpa. Three cows of them are in Alba of the North with the Crut...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What awaits thee, says the latter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he says," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will come to me, says Fraech to Connall," }, { "from": "human", "value": "(?)" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seven days hence I come said Eocho; and the heralds from him went. Now, as Eocho lay in slumber, in the night a vision came; By a youthful squire attended, rose to view a fairy dame:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Welcome be my greeting to you! said the king:" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fifty horses, black in colour; gold and silver reins and bits; Fifty sets of gay equipment, such as fairies well befits; These at early dawn to-morrow shall my care for thee provide: Let thy foster-children with thee on the road thou makest ride! Rightly do we come to help thee,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What gift requirest thou from me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For milking-kine, Ailill said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I ask ; and Eocho," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Few of these indeed are mine! Forty sons of Munster's princes ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are ye? said Ailill;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Conquest, said the fairy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Though Defeat I shun," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Conquest joyfully I meet." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Conq...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Easy is the task, she answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What should be my force? he asked her:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Take of heroes seven score For that fight, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "][FN#53] said Eocho," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will go to that conference;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Something, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[FN#54]" }, { "from": "human", "value": "With how many shall I g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Through wizardry was all that thing: it was recited (?) how great a thing had appeared, and he told his dream to his people." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is that man named? said Ailill." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not hard, Eocho Bec, the king of Cliu." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ailill and Medb made them welcome;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wherefore have I have been invited to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me have from thee, said Ailill," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thus let it be as thou sayest, said Eocho;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are ye? said Ailill." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Victory and Defeat are our names, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Victory indeed is welcome to me, but not so Defeat, said Ailill." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Victory shall ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three of the kine are missing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We cannot wait for these; let the men take provision on their horses, [for rightly should we be afraid in the midst of Munster. Wilt thou depart with me, O maiden? said he." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From our band, said Mani Morgor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On Mingar the task was set, And with two beside him, he searched the land, till three of the maids they met: By springs of water they found the maids, drew swords, and against them leapt!" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Into twain this herd of kine to divide were good, At the Briuin[FN#65] Ford should the hosts unite; too strait hath the path been made For so vast a herd" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To unite our band, thus Morgor cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The maidens went to the Croghan Fort, to Maev with their news they pressed:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thy sons, O Maev, at the Briuin Ford are pent, and are sore distressed, And t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some one from us, said Ailill," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know, said Medb," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some of you, said Mani Morgor," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mani Mingar, with two...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We all, said Mani," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The maidens went to Cruachan, and told all the tale." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thy sons are at Ath Briuin in distress, and have said that help should be brought to them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pursuit of the Cattle of Flidais," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nia Segamain, that is seg (deer) are a main (his treasure), for in his time cows and does were milked in the same way every day, so that he had great wealth in these things beyond that of all other kings. The Flidais spoken of above was the mother of Nia Segamain, Adammair's son...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now give me rede, said Fergus," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "cried Ailill, sore perplexed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let Maev come nigh with counsel what course to follow next!" }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What quest, said Ailill Fair-haired," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of Ailill, son of Magach, we stand, they said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "For each of these...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I come to no such meeting, the angry chief replied;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yon man is far too haughty: too grossly swells his pride!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thus Bricroo,[FN#84] the Poisonous Scoffer, in mockery, jeering them, spoke:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The taunt, answered Ailill Mae Mata," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bricriu of the Poison Tongue," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tara," } ]