Note 1-1 — Footnotes.

After this lay, that was the day that Donn ('the Brown Bull') of Cualnge came into the land of Marginè 1to Sliab Culinn1 and with him fifty heifers of the heifers 2of Ulster;2 and there he was pawing and digging up the earth in that place, 3in the land of Marginè, in Cualnge;3 that is, he flung the turf over him with his heels. 4While the hosts were marching over Mag Breg, Cuchulain in the meanwhile laid hands on their camps.4 It was on the same day that the Morrigan, daughter of Ernmas, 5the prophetess5 of the fairy-folk, came 6in the form of a bird,6 and she perched on the standing-stone in Temair of Cualnge giving the Brown Bull of Cualnge warning 7and lamentations7 before the men of Erin. Then she began to address him and what she said was this: "Good, now, O luckless one, thou Brown Bull of Cualnge," so spake the Morrigan; "take heed; for the men of Erin. 8are on thy track and seeking thee8 and they will come upon thee, and 9if thou art taken9 they will carry thee away to their camp 10like any ox on a raid,10 unless thou art on thy guard." And she commenced to give warning to him in this fashion, 11telling him he would be slain on the Táin, and she delivered this judgement11 and spake these words aloud:a—