21. Thereafter Ciaran went to parley with the King of Ireland, Tuathal
Moel-garb, to ask him for a slave-girl that he had. Ciaran put his
hand on the quern for charity, and he promised that he would serve
in the place of the girl. Then Tuathal gifted the girl to God and to
Ciaran, and further he gave him his kingly apparel, and Ciaran gave it
forthwith to poor folk.