Crossword-Solution: DERMAT 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

DERMAT AND GRANIA It was at Tara that King Cormac would hold a great meeting, and the chiefs and nobles of the land were gathered together there.

Grania then rose slowly from her seat and crossed the hall to where Dermat sat, for Dermat, of those nobles that Finn brought with him, pleased her the best.

And to him she spake thus: [Illustration: Dermat] 'Dermat, it is from the champion who sat next me that I have learnt thy name, but ere I knew it I loved thee.

Therefore, I pray thee, flee with me hence.' Sore troubled was Dermat as he listened to these words, and at length he replied, 'Unworthy am I of thy love, and there is not a stronghold in Erin that would shelter us from the wrath of Finn were this thing to be.' When Grania heard the words that Dermat spake, she said, 'I place thee under a solemn vow that thou follow me from Tara ere Finn shall wake.

And thou knowest there is no true hero but will hold his vow binding even unto death.' 'Even though we so willed it,' replied Dermat, 'could we not escape from Tara, for Finn hath in his keeping the keys of the great gate.' 'Yet canst thou escape if thou wilt,' said Grania, 'for a champion such as thou canst bound over the highest wall in Erin.