To Lir, having been thus gently entreated, it seemed good to end the feud, and he agreed to the marriage.

So the following day he set out with a train of fifty chariots from the Hill of the White Field and journeyed straight for the palace of Bov the Red, which was by Lough Derg on the river Shannon.
[9] Pronounced Eefa.
Arriving there, he found about him nothing but joy and glad faces, for the renewal of amity and concord; and his people were welcomed, and well entreated, and handsomely entertained for the night.
[Illustration: "There sat the three maidens with the Queen"] And there sat the three maidens on the same couch with the Danaan Queen, and Bov the Red bade Lir choose which one he would have to wife.
"The maidens are all fair and noble," said Lir, "but the eldest is first in consideration and honour, and it is she that I will take, if she be willing." "The eldest is Eva," said Bov the Red, "and she will wed thee if it be pleasing to thee." "It is pleasing," said Lir, and the pair were wedded the same night.

Lir abode for fourteen days in the palace of Bov the Red, and then departed with his bride, to make a great wedding-feast among his own people.
In due time after this Eva, wife of Lir, bore him two fair children at a birth, a daughter and a son.

The daughter's name was called Fionnuala of the Fair Shoulder, and the son's name was Hugh.

And again she bore him two sons, Fiachra and Conn; and at their birth she died.