Note 1-1 — Footnotes.

"They push on to the dûn 1and they unharness their horses in the place where the bog and the river meet south W. 1227. of the dûn of the macNechta.1 And the little boy sprang out of the chariot onto the green. Thus was the green of the dûn, with a pillar-stone upon it and an iron band around that, and a band for prowess it was, and there was a writing in ogam at its joint, and this is the writing it bore: 'Whoever should come to the green, if he be a champion, it is geis for him to depart from the green without giving challenge to single combat.1 The lad deciphered the writing and put his two arms around the pillar-stone. Just as the pillar-stone was with its ring, he flung it 2with a cast of his hand2 into the moat, so that a wave passed over it. "Methinks," spake Ibar, "it is no better now than to be where it was. And we know thou shalt now get on this green the thing thou desirest, even the token of death, yea, of doom and destruction!" 3For it was the violation of a geis of the sons of Necht Scenè to do that thing.3 "Good, O Ibar, spread the chariot-coverings and its skins for me that I may *LL. fo. 66b. snatch a little sleep." "Woe is me, that thou sayest so," answered the gilla; "for a foeman's land is this and not a green for diversion." 4And Cuchulain said to the gilla, "Do not awaken me for a few but awaken me for many."4 The gilla arranged the chariot-coverings and its skins 5under Cuchulain, and the lad fell asleep on the green.5