For my geas is potent, and, late or soon, I serve my geas, and take my doom as the pay well-earned that is given as pay to me, for the figure I make in this world of men.

And now has come upon me a geas which is not to be lifted either by toils or by miracles.

Therefore I now depart from you, my pigs, to win me a fine wife and much wealth and leisure wherein to discharge my geas.

"For we will be married out of hand, dear snip," he says, "and you will help me to discharge my geas, and afterward we will travel everywhither and into the last limits of earth, so that we may see the ends of this world and may judge them.

So it is necessary that I make the figure of a young man, for my mother was not of these parts, but a woman of Ath Cliath, and so she put a geas upon me" "Yes, yes, you had mentioned this geas, and I am wondering what sort of a something is this geas.