The Room of the Servant-Guards. 1909-14. The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel. The Harvard Classics

The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The Room of the Servant-Guards


“There I beheld two warriors standing over the king. Two curved shields they had, and two great pointed swords. Red kilts they wore, and in the mantles pins of white silver.”	1
“Bole and Root are those,” quoth he, “the king’s two guards, two sons of Maffer Toll.”	2