Note 2-2 — Footnotes.

2When the Brown Bull of Cualnge heard those words2 he moved on to Glenn na Samaisce ('Heifers' Glen') in Sliab Culinn ('Hollymount') 3in the north of Ulster,3 and fifty of his heifers with him, 4and his herdsman accompanied him; Forgemen was the name of the cowherd.4 5And he threw off the thrice fifty boys who were wont to play on his back and he destroyed two-thirds of the boys.5 This was one of the magic virtues of the Brown Bull of Cualnge: Fifty heifers he would cover every day. These calved before that same hour on the next day and such of them that calved not 6at the due time6 burst with the calves, because they could not suffer the begetting of the Brown Bull of Cualnge. One of the magic virtues of the Brown Bull of Cualnge were the fifty 7grown7 youths who engaged in games, 8who8 on his fine back 9found room9 every evening 10to play draughts and assemblyc and leaping10; 11he would not put them from him nor would he totter under them.11 Another of the magic virtues of the Brown Bull of Cualnge was the hundred warriors W. 1535. he screened from the heat and the cold under his shadow and shelter. Another of the magic virtues of the Brown Bull of Cualnge was that no goblin nor boggart nor sprite of the glen dared come into one and the same cantred with him. Another of the magic virtues of the Brown Bull of Cualnge was his musical lowing every evening as he returned to his haggard, his shed and his byre. It was music enough and delight for a man in the north and in the south, 1in the east and the west,1 and in the middle of the cantred of Cualnge, the lowing he made at even as he came to his haggard, his shed, and his byre. These, then, are some of the magic virtues of the Brown Bull of Cualnge.