Note 1-1 — Footnotes.

W. 173. 1Now Cormac had three companies which came to Cruachan.1 Before all, the first company. A covering of close-shorn 2black2 hair upon them. Green mantles and 3many-coloured cloaks3 wound about them; therein, silvern brooches. Tunics of thread of gold next to their skin, 4reaching down to their knees,4 with interweaving of red gold. Bright-handled swords they bore, with guards of silver. 5Long shields they bore, and there was a broad, grey spearhead on a slender shaft in the hand of each man.5 "Is that Cormac, yonder?" all and every one asked. "Not he, indeed," Medb made answer.