Conn of the hundred battles
CeltachorThe dawn of a blistering sun,
With his three Druids with him,
Maol, Bloc and Bhuice
And three poets, Ethain,
Corb and Cesarn
Looking for people of the Sidhe.
He stood upon a stone,
And it screamed under his feet.
The screams were heard
All over the lands of Teamhair
"Where has it come from
And why did it scream?"
Conn asked his druid
With a vacant stare,
No answer revealed till the end
Of fifty-three days
The stone is the Lia Fail,
From the lands of Falias,
In Teamhair it is and will be forever,
And if no king comes to the end
Of the gathering
There will be drought
And suffering in that year.
And while they waited
A mist of blackness arose,
A figure in the darkness,
Noise of a rider coming forth,
The rider threw three spears!
Each one faster than the last!
And at the sound of his name
The rider stopped
He came to them
And bade them welcome.
They came to an ancestral plain,
A king's rath, and a golden tree
At its door,
And inside the rath, a grand hall
And a roof of white bronze
So they went into the house,
The Rider in his Ancient Chair,
The reflection of the sun
On his shining face
That woman is the
Kingship of Ireland Forever,
Conn you will fight a hundred battles
Before you die
And I, I am the Sun!
I am Lugh of the Long Hand!