Literal Translation of the Poems
Conor came into the house
with three times fifty warriors,
so that he struck the head from Mani
with his seven times twenty.
Conor left behind him in the house 25
his people in the manner of war;
Beside himself and Brod
none of them escaped to report of it.
The same woman, westwards to Maev,
spoke a message that was not long:
"Conor has slain thy son.
Evil the hour when he went to the war with him."
Maev went forth from the west to war
with seven hundred men with weapons.
They warred face to face
on the plains of Ulster against Conor.
Maev slew there on the plain
seven men in the manner of war
with her own hand, better than any hero,
including the two sons of Conor.
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