At this part of the relation another version adds that Diarmad, in asking several times for a drink at the hand of Finn, rehearsed how he served him “eastward and westward.” But the king replied that the ill he had done him in one hour outweighed all the good exploits he could tell. “Thou shalt yet get no drink from my shell.” Diarmad then addresses a melancholy farewell to Ben-Gulbin, the hill of his love, and to courtship. He keenly feels his sorrowful plight as his life-blood is ebbing away; and true to his character his last thoughts are, as he dies, of “the maids of the Féinn.” Finn then relents, and pronounces a regretful eulogy over the dead body of Diarmad. In the Dean’s version it is the bard himself that pronounces the praise of the dead, in verses which describe his person and character:— Pierced to the heart he lies, MacDoon in the battle brave, The suffering son of the Féinn; On this hillock I see his grave. The blue-eyed hawk of Essroy, The victor in every fight, Pierced by the poisonous bristle— There he lies on the height! By the jealous design of Finn Fell the bright-souled MacDoon Redder his lips than the cherry, Whiter his breast than the sun. His tresses flowed golden yellow; Long eyelash ’neath brow so fair; Blue and gray in his eye; Pretty and curled his hair. Gentle and sweet in his speech Was that champion clothed with might; With elegant hands and a faultless form, And a skin of purest white. Fair winner of women’s love, MacDoon of the witching eyes; In courtship he’ll ne’er engage, For there ’neath the sod he lies. Nor with steed nor with hunter shall Diarmad Go forth for the chase again; The loved son of beauty and valour Is left there, alas, in the Glen! The _Death of Diarmad_, like the _Death of Oscar_, has been a great favourite with reciters. But believers in the authenticity of Macpherson’s “Ossian” regard the former as inferior poetry. The author of the version translated above, Allan Macrorie, lived probably in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Glen-Shee, mentioned in the poem, is a well-known locality in Perthshire, and Ben-Gulbin is a hill in Glen-Shee. But this is not the only place that is said to be the scene of the slaying of the boar and of Diarmad’s death. The district around West Loch Tarbert, Kintyre, also affords topographical indications of the famous hunt having taken place there. Nor can the claims of our friends, the Irish, be forgotten; they also have their _Sliabh Gulbin_.