"For what have ye come ?" asked Lir.

"Even to bring your children to Bov the Red," said they.

"Did they not reach you with Aoife ?" said Lir.

"Nay," said the messengers, "but Aoife said you would not permit them to go with her." Then fear and trouble came upon Lir, for he surmised that Aoife had wrought evil upon the children.

So his horses were yoked and he set out upon his road south-westward, until he reached the shores of Loch Derryvaragh.