Note 12-12 — Footnotes.

12When they had failed to find the Donn Cualnge,12 the hosts kept their way along the river 13around the river Cronn to its source,13 being unable to cross it, till they reached the place where the river rises out of the mountains, and, had they wished it, they would have gone between the river and the mountain, but Medb would not allow it, so they had to dig and hollow out the mountain. W. 1585. before her in order 1that their trace might remain there forever and1 that it might be for a shame and reproach to Ulster.