Note 1-1 — Footnotes.

W. 1381. "A mere lad accomplished these deeds at the end of seven years after his birth," 1continued Fiachu son of Fiarba;1 "for he overcame heroes and battle-champions at whose hands two-thirds of the men of Ulster had fallen, and these had not got their revenge on them until that scion rose up for them. No need then is there of wonder or of surprise, though he came to the border, though he slew one man or two men or three men or four men, 2though he cut off the four-headed pole with one cut and one blow of his shining sword2 when now are fulfilled his seventeen years at the time of the Táin Bó Cúalnge."