Note 2-2 — Footnotes.

W. 1563. 2Early2 on the morrow the hosts continued their way 3to lay waste the plain of Murthemne and to sack Mag Breg and Meath and Machaire Conaill ('Conall's Plain') and the land of Cualnge. It was then that the streams and rivers of Conalle Murthemni rose to the tops of the trees, and the streams of the Cronn rose withal, until the hosts arrived at Glaiss Cruinn ('Cronn's Stream').3 And they attempted the stream and failed to cross it 4because of the size of its waves,4 5so that they slept on its bank.5 And Cluain Carpat ('Chariot-meadow') is the name of the first place where they reached it. This is why Cluain Carpat is the name of that place, because of the hundreda chariots which the river carried away from them to the sea. Medb ordered her people that one of the warriors should go try the river. And 6on the morrow6 there arose a great, stout, 7wonderful7 warrior of the 8particular8 people of Medb 9and Ailill,9 Uala by name, and he took on his back a massy rock, 10to the end that Glaiss Cruinn might not carry him back.10 And he went to essay the stream, and the stream threw him back dead, lifeless, with his W. 1571. stone on his back 1and so he was drowned.1 Medb ordered that he be lifted 2out of the river then2 3by the men of Erin3 and his grave dug 4and his keen made4 and his stone raised 5over his grave,5 so that it is thence Lia Ualann ('Uala's Stone') 6on the road near the stream6 in the land of Cualnge.