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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge

Note 1-1 — Footnotes.

Joseph Dunn translation

"Another time a certain man went to wake him, and the lad struck him with his fist in 1the neck or in1 the forehead, so that it drove in the front of his forehead on to his brain and he overthrew the pillar-stone with his forearm." "It is known," exclaimed Ailill, "that that was the fist of a champion and the arm of a hero." "And from that time," continued Fergus, "no one durst wake him, so that he used to wake of himself.

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