"And while they were there they saw a horrible spectral personage coming towards them from the South. Vehement were his steps and his rapid progress. The way he sped over the earth might be compared to the darting of a hawk down a cliff or to wind from off the green sea, and his left was towards the land [_i.e._, he came from the south along the shore]. "'Go meet him,' said Baile, 'and ask him where he goes, or whence he comes, or what is the cause of his haste.' "'From Mount Leinster I come, and I go back now to the North, to the mouth of the river Bann; and I have no news but of the daughter of Lewy, son of Fergus, who had fallen in love with Baile mac Buain, and was coming to meet him. But the youths of Leinster overtook her, and she died from being forcibly detained, as Druids and fair prophets had prophesied, for they foretold that they would never meet in life, but that they would meet after death, and not part for ever. There is my news,' and he darted away from them like a blast of wind over the green sea, and they were not able to detain him. "When Baile heard this he fell dead without life, and his tomb and his rath were raised, and his stone set up, and his funeral games were performed by the Ultonians. "And a yew grew up through his grave, and the form and shape of Baile's head was visible on the top of it--whence the place is called Baile's Strand [now Dundalk]. "Afterwards the same man went to the South to where the maiden Aillinn was, and went into her grianan or sunny chamber. "'Whence comes the man whom we do not know?' said the maiden. "'From the northern half of Erin, from the mouth of the Bann I come, and I go past this to Mount Leinster.' "'You have news?' said the maiden. "'I have no news worth mentioning now, only I saw the Ultonians performing the funeral games and digging the rath, and setting up the stone, and writing the name of Baile mac Buain, the royal heir of Ulster, by the side of the strand of Baile, who died while on his way to meet a sweetheart and a beloved woman to whom he had given affection, for it was not fated for them to meet, in life, or for one of them to see the other living,' and he darted out after telling the evil news. "And Aillinn fell dead without life, and her tomb was raised, etc. And an apple tree grew through her grave and became a great tree at the end of seven years, and the shape of Aillinn's head was upon its top. "Now at the end of seven years poets and prophets and visioners cut down the yew which was over the grave of Baile, and they made a _poet's tablet_ of it, and they wrote the visions and the espousals and the loves and the courtships of Ulster in it. [The apple tree which grew over the grave of Aillinn was also cut down] and in like manner the courtships of Leinster were written in it.