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Was it Scathach? There were many Queens. All the rulers there were Queens.
FINTAIN.
No, not Scathach.
CUCHULLAIN.
It was Uathach then. Speak, speak!
FINTAIN.
I cannot speak, you are clutching me too tightly. (Cuchullain lets him go.) I cannot remember who it was. I am not certain. It was some Queen.
BARACH.
He said a while ago that the young man was Aoife's son.
CUCHULLAIN.
She? No, no, she had no son when I was there.
BARACH.
That blind man there said that she owned him for her son.
CUCHULLAIN.
I had rather he had been some other woman's son. What father had he? A soldier out of Alba? She was an amorous woman, a proud pale amorous woman.
FINTAIN.
None knew whose son he was.
CUCHULLAIN.
None knew? Did you know, old listener at doors?
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