Note 6-6 — Footnotes.
Joseph Dunn translation
The second troop. Newly shorn hair they wore 6and manes on the back of their heads,6 7fair, comely indeed.7 Dark-blue cloaks they all had about them. Next to their skin, gleaming-white tunics, *LL. fo. 55b. 8with red ornamentation, reaching down to their calves.8 Swords they had with round hilts of gold and silvern fist-guards, 9and shining shields upon them and five-pronged spears in their hands.9 "Is yonder man Cormac?" all the people asked. "Nay, verily, that is not he," Medb made answer.