Note b — Footnotes.

"And this was the counsel they agreed to follow: to let out the womenfolk to meet the youth, namely, thrice fifty women, even ten and seven-score bold, stark-naked women, at one and the same time, and their chieftainess, Scannlach ('the Wanton') before them, to discover their persons and their shameb to him. 2"Let the young women go," said Conchobar, "and bare their paps and their breasts and their swelling bosoms, and if he be a true warrior he will not withstand being bound, and he shall be placed in a vat of cold water until his anger go from him."2 3Thereupon3 the young women all 4arose and4 marched out, 5and these are the names of those queens: Sgamalus and Sgannlach and Sgiathan, Feidlim and Deigtini Finnchas, and Finngheal and Fidniam and Niam, daughter of Celtchar son of Uthechar5; and they discovered their nakedness and all their shame to him. 6"These are the warriors that will meet thee to-day," quoth Mugain, wife of Conchobar son of Ness.6 The lad hid his face from them and turned his gaze on the chariot, that he might not see the nakedness or the shame of the women.c Then the lad was lifted out of the chariot. He was placed in three vats of cold water to extinguish his wrath; and the first vat into which he was put burst its staves and its hoops like the cracking of nuts around him. W. 1367. The next vat 1into which he went1 2boiled with bubbles as big as fists2 therefrom. The third vat 3into which he went,3 some men might endure it and others might not. Then the boy's wrath went down.