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 Diarmait and Banbán go to the appointed house at Ráith Becc. Here Banbán offers him his daughter (anonymous)<!---a young woman, fine raiment---> to stand in for the king’s wife that night. A bed is made and a meal is prepared. Banbán’s daughter presents the king with a shirt that she made from a single flax-seed as well as a mantle made from the wool of a single sheep.
-When meat and drink is provided, Banbán explains that the bacon is good because it comes from piglets that were never farrowed, having been cut out from their mother; and that the ale is good because it is brewed from a single grain of special corn: he found it when he inspected the crops of his land and killed a small dove (''ferán eidinn'').
+When meat and drink are provided, Banbán explains that the bacon is good because it comes from piglets that were never farrowed, having been cut out from their mother; and that the ale is good because it is brewed from a single grain of special corn: he found it when he inspected the crops of his land and killed a small dove (''ferán eidinn'').
 Diarmait remarks that the upper part of the house is relatively new. Banbán explains to him that it was built from a single ridge-beam (''cleith'') that he found floating on the sea while he was out fishing<!---in currachs-->.