Note 3-3 — Footnotes.

Then they went their ways 3in two chariots to Delga,3 to come up to Cuchulain where Cuchulain was between Fochain and the sea. 4There it is that he was that day, with his back to the pillar-stone at Crich Rois,4 playing draughts with Laeg, 5to wit, his charioteer.5 6The back of his head was turned towards them that approached and Laeg faced them.6 And not a 7living7 thing entered the 8entire8 plain without Laeg perceiving it and, notwithstanding, he continued to win every other game of draughts from Cuchulain. "A lone warrior cometh towards us 9over the plain,9 10my master10 Cucuc," spake Laeg. "What manner of warrior?" queried Cuchulain. 11"A fine, large chariot is there," said he.11 12"But what sort of chariot?"12 "As large as one of the chief mountains that are highest on a great plain appears to me *LL. fo. 71b. the chariot that is under the warrior; 13and I would liken to the battlements of one of the vast, royal seats of the province the chariot that is in the trappings of those horses;13 as large as one of the noble trees on a main fort's green meseems the curly, tressed, fair-yellow, all-golden hair hanging loose around the man's head; a purple mantle fringed with thread of gold 14wrapped14 around him; a golden, ornamented brooch in the mantle 15over his breast;15 16a bright-shining, hooded shirt, with red embroidery of red gold trussed up on his white W. 1819. skin;16 a broad and grey-shafted lance, 1perforated from mimasca to 'horn,'1 flaming red in his hand; over him, a bossed, plaited shield, 2curved, with an engraved edge of silvered bronze,2 3with applied ornaments of red gold thereon,3 and a boss of red gold; a lengthy sword, as long as the oar4 of a huge currach 5on a wild, stormy night,5 6resting on the two thighs6 of the great haughty warrior that is within the chariot.4"