It seems that by some occult means it was revealed to Manannan MacLir that his wife, Fann, was in trouble between the jealous women of Ulster and Cuchulainn. So he came from the east to seek his eloped spouse. When Fann found out that Manannan had found _her_ out, she utters the following very quaint, extraordinary, and touching rhapsody:-- "Behold ye the valiant son of Lir From the plains of Eoghan of Inver,-- Manannan, lord of the world's fair hills, There was a time when he was dear to me. "Even to-day if he were nobly constant,-- My mind loves not jealousy; Affection is a subtle thing; It makes its way without labour. "When Manannan the Great me espoused I was a spouse worthy of him; He could not win from me for his life A game in excess at chess. "When Manannan the Great me espoused I was a spouse of him worthy; A bracelet of doubly tested gold He gave me as the price of my blushes. "I had with me going over the sea Fifty maidens of varied beauty; I gave them unto fifty men Without reproach,--the fifty maidens. "As for me I would have cause [to be grieved] Because the minds of women are silly; The person whom I loved exceedingly Has placed me here at a disadvantage. "I bid thee adieu, O beautiful Cu; Hence we depart from thee with a good heart; Though we return not, be thy good will with us; Every condition is noble in comparison with that of going away." It would appear that Cuchulainn was as much distracted about Fann as she was about him; for when he found that she had gone home with Manannan MacLir, he became desperate, and the tale says, with extraordinary grotesqueness and apparent inconsequence, that "It was then Cuchulainn leaped the three high leaps and the three south leaps of Luachair; and he remained for a long time without drink, without food, among the mountains; and where he slept each night was on the road of Midhluachair." But what good did the jumping do him, or why did he jump? Connor, King of Ulster, and the nobles and Druids of the province, had a hard time with Cuchulainn after Fann left him, as he seems to have gone downright crazy. The tale says that Connor had to send poets and professional men to seek him out in his mountain retreat, and that when they found him he was going to kill them. At last the Druids managed to give him a drink of forgetfulness, so that he remembered no more about Fann.