Note CXIX — Chapter VI
P. W. (Patrick Weston) Joyce translation
] A usual form of challenge among the ancient Irish warriors. It is very curious that this custom is remembered to the present day in the patois of the peasantry, even where the Irish language is no longer spoken. In the south, and in parts of the west, they call a distinguished fighting man a buailim sciach, an expression which means literally, "I strike the shield."