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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge

Note 10-10 — Footnotes.

Joseph Dunn translation

10Then came10 the last troop. Hair cut broad they wore; fair-yellow, deep-golden, loose-flowing back hair 11down to their shoulders11 upon them. Purple cloaks, fairly bedizened, about them; golden, embellished brooches over their breasts; 12and they had curved shields with sharp, chiselled edges around them and spears as long as the pillars of a king's house in the hand of each man.12 Fine, long, silken tunics 13with hoods13 they wore to the very instep. Together they raised their feet, and together they set them down again. "Is that Cormac, yonder?" asked all. "Aye, it is he, 14this time,14" Medb made answer.

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