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Excerpt from Told at the Feis: Stories of Ancient Ireland Both warriors approached with great caution until they came within speaking distance of each other, when each of them planted his shield in front of him to cover his body, and viewed the other over its border with inquiring eyes. Bras was the first to break silence, and Sreng was de lighted to hear himself addressed in his own language, for Gaelic was the mother-tongue of each. They now drew near to each other, and each examined the sword spears and shield of the other, and in this examination they discovered a very marked difference in the shape and excellence of the weapons - Sreng being armed with two heavy, thick, bluntly-pointed spears, while Bras carried two beautifully shaped, thin, long, slender, sharp-pointed spears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.