The Deer of Ill-LuckWhen Meave heard that already the Hound of Ulster stood upon her path, the words spoken by the fairy Feidelm and the Druid came back into her mind, and she resolved that not a moment would she linger by the way, but now at once, before the men of Ulster were risen from their weakness, she would push on direct to Emain Macha. "If one man alone and single-handed be formidable to us," she said to Ailill, "still more formidable will he be with the gathered hosts of Ulster at his back, fighting for their country and their fatherland."
So that very night she gave command that the army should move on, taking the direct way into Ulster; and when the men complained there was no road, she bid her soldiers take their swords and hew for the chariots a path straight through the for
