Here are the adventures of Mogh ruith.
Adventures of Mogh Ruith
Cacht, the Catmand daughter of the Britons in the Isle of Man.
His mother was taken captive. The total of 50 girls were distributed in Ireland. Cacht went to the house of Roth mac Righuill, King of Ireland, and there she was in constant servitude and slavery. A wise man lived with the king, namely Cuindeasg mac Fhirglain of the clan of Fergus mac Rossa of Ulster. Cuindeasg caused the slave girl to become pregnant with him. The night Cacht gave birth, the Druid said that the name of the son, who was born that night, would be heard throughout Ireland and celebrated. Roth said, “My name is the one he will have. Hence, this was the name given to Mog Ruith. He was then brought up and learned science with the king and became a sage. He found instruction there and went to Scathach, a warrior, to learn the craft of arms, until he was a master.
There, a Druid said to him, "If this was the Druidic art you had learned today, your name would be famous throughout Ireland." – "I will learn it," declared Mog Ruith. He learned it, when he was a (famous) Sage in Ireland. He then went to the druid Simon, to learn with him. And he had left his pregnant wife in Darbrui, namely Dron, daughter of Oengus mac Echach Lairen (and his son,) namely Buan, and it was of (his son) Fercorp, that his wife was pregnant. Mog Ruith spent thirty-three years with Simon. So he gouged out one of his eyes when he slaughtered a calf in the snow in the mountains of the Alps. And the other eye was blinded when he held the sun for two days in Darbri, so that he made one day with two. From there he mutilated one of his eyes (= the other), so that he was blind. .
Then he came back to Ireland (and went) until he reached Dairbriu. He (had) a boy with him. (The boy) looked into the house from the back. Mog Ruith asked, "What is the woman doing?" – "She is sitting on the chair and a handsome young man is with her and they are nice to each other," said the young boy. "Bring me the axe," said Mog Ruith. “I'll take the axe,” said the boy, “if everyone is asleep. He was (about) to kill his own son. However, they waited patiently for three days and three nights. On the last night Mog Ruith asked, "What are they doing here," he said, he answered him "Thirty-three years (have passed)," they said, "until this evening, since our father left us. Never before had he sought out (our) community. As for me and my mother, she never went with a man, and I took no wife. So he went and approached the fire. The woman then recognized and as well as his limbs, and she put a robe around him. He was the High Druid of all Ireland at the time, and so it was to him that Fiachra Muillethan mac Eogain and the People of Munster sought advice during the siege of Drom Damgaire.
