11. Another time his father sent him to present a cauldron to
the king, even to Furban. There met him poor men on the way, and
[Ciaran][16] gifts the king's cauldron to them. So he was put in bonds
then, and slavery was imposed on him at the king's hands; and this was
the labour put upon him, to grind at the quern. Then great marvels
came to pass, for when he went to grind at the quern, it would turn of
itself, and did so continually. They were the angels of the Lord who
used to grind for his sake. Not long thereafter there came smiths from
the lands of Muma, with three cauldrons for Ciaran as an alms, and
thus was Ciaran delivered from servitude to the king.