Note a — Footnotes.
Joseph Dunn translation
W. 1552. The warriors of four of the five grand provinces of Erin bided their time in Redè Lochè in Cualnge and pitched camp and took quarters therein for that night. Medb bade her fair handmaiden from amongst her attendants to go for her to the river for water for drinking and washing. Lochè was the name of the maiden. Thereupon Lochè went, and fiftya women in her train and the queen's diadem of gold on her head. And Cuchulain 2espied them and he2 3put a stone on his sling and3 cast *LL. fo. 69b. a stone from his 4staff4-sling at her, so that he broke the diadem of gold in three pieces and killed the maiden on her plain. Thence is Redè Lochè ('the Plain of Lochè') in Cualnge. For Cuchulain had thought, for want of acquaintance and knowledge, that it was Medb that was there.