Note 5-5 — Footnotes.

""Take the birds along with thee, O Ibar," cried the lad 5to his charioteer. If I myself go to take them," he added, "the wild deer will spring upon thee."5 "I am in sore straits," answered Ibar; "6I find it not easy to go."6 "What may it be?" asked the lad. "Great cause have I. 7The horses have become wild, so that I cannot go by them.7 If I stir at all from where I am, the chariot's iron wheels will cut me down 8because of their sharpness8 and because of the strength and the power and the might of the career of the horses. If I make any move, the horns of the deer will pierce and gore me, 9for the horns of the stag have filled the whole space between the two shafts of the chariot."9 "Ah, no true champion art thou any longer, O Ibar," 10said the lad;10 11"step thus from his horn.11 12I swear by the god by whom the Ulstermen swear,12 because of the look I shall give at the horses they will not depart from the straight way; at the look I shall give at the deer they will bend their heads in fear and awe of me; 13they will not dare move,13 and W. 1346. it will be safe for thee e'en though thou goest in front of their horns." 1And so it was done. Cuchulain fastened the reins.1 2Then2 3the charioteer3 4went and collected the birds, and he bound them to the hind poles and to the thongs and the traces of the chariot.4 5Thus it was that he proceeded to Emain Macha: the wild deer behind his chariot, and the flock of swans flying over the same, and the three heads of the sons of Necht Scenè 6and the jewels, treasures and wealth of their enemies arranged6 in his chariot.5