Note 4-4 — Footnotes.

"4Thereupon he came out,4 and his 5festive5 garments were put on him 6by Mugain the queen.6 His comeliness appeared on him *LL. fo. 68a. and he made a crimson wheel-ball of himself from his crown to the ground. 7A shout was raised at the bluish purple about him.7 8Beautiful then was the lad8 9that was raised up in view.9 Seven toes he had to each of his two feet, and seven fingers to each of his two hands, and seven pupils to each of his two kingly eyes, and seven gems of the brilliance of the eye was each separate pupil. Four spots of down on either of his two cheeks: a blue spot, a purple spot, a green spot, a yellow spot. Fifty strands of bright-yellow hair from one ear to the other, like to a comb of birch twigs or like to a brooch of pale gold in the face of the sun. A clear, white, shorn spot was upon him, as if a cow had licked it. A 10fair, laced10 greena mantle about him; a silver pin therein 11over his white breast, so that the eyes of men could not look at it for its gleam and its brightness.11 A 12hooded12 tunic of thread of gold about him. 13A magnificent, fair-coloured, dark purple shield he bore. Two hard, five-pointed spears in his hand. A diadem of gold round his head.13 And the lad was seated between the two feet of Conchobar, 14and that was his couch ever after,14 and the king began to stroke his close-shorn hair.