Note 7-7 — Footnotes.

"7Thereupon7 they went on till 8bravely, boldly, battle-victoriously, boastingly, blade-redded,8 they reached 9the fair plain of9 Emain. It was then Lebarcham, 10the watch in Emain Macha,10 11came forth and11 discerned them, she, the daughter of Aue ('Ear') and of Adarc ('Horn') 12and she hastened to Conchobar's house, her eye restless in her head and her tongue faltering in her jaw.12 "A single chariot-fighter is here, 13coming towards Emain Macha,"13 cried Lebarcham, "and his coming is fearful. The heads of his foes all red in his chariot with him. Beautiful, all-white birds he has hovering around in the chariot. With him are wild, untamed deer, bound and fettered, shackled and pinioned. And 14I give my word,14 if he be not attended to this night, 15blood will flow over Conchobar's province by him and15 the youths of Ulster will fall by his hand." "We know him, that chariot-fighter," spake Conchobar; "16belike it is16 the little gilla, my sister's son, who went to the edge of the marches 17at the beginning of the day,17 W. 1355. who has reddened his hands and is still unsated of combat, and unless he be attended to, all the youths of Emain will fall by his hand." 1Soon he turned the lefta side of his chariot towards Emain, and this was geis for Emain. And Cuchulain cried, "I swear by the god by whom the Ulstermen swear, if a man be not found to engage with me, I will spill the blood of every one in the dûn!"1