Note 5-5 — Footnotes.

Cuchulain went to meet him at the ford and he deemed it unbecoming to bring along arms 5or to ply weapons upon him,5 so Cuchulain came to the encounter unarmed 6except for the weapons he wrested from his opponent.6 7And when Larinè reached the ford, Cuchulain saw him and made a rush at him.7 Cuchulain knocked all of Larinè's weapons out of his hand as one might knock toys out of the hand of an infant. Cuchulain ground and bruised him between his arms, he lashed him and clasped him, he squeezed him and shook him, so that he spilled all the dirt out of him, 8so that the ford was defiled with his dung8 9and the air was fouled with his dust9 and an 10unclean, filthy10 wrack of cloud arose in the four airts wherein he was. Then from the middle of the ford Cuchulain hurled Larinè far from him across through the camp 11till he fell into Lugaid's two hands11 at the door of the tent of his brother. W. 2252. Howbeit 1from that time forth1 2for the remainder of his life2 he never got up without a 3sigh and a3 groan, and 4he never lay down without hurt, and he never stood up without a moan;4 5as long as he lived5 he never ate 6a meal6 without plaint, and never thenceforward was he free from weakness of the loins and oppression of the chest and without cramps and the frequent need which obliged him to go out. Still he is the only man that made escape, 7yea though a bad escape,7 after combat with Cuchulain on the Cualnge Cattle-raid. Nevertheless that maiming took effect upon him, so that it afterwards brought him his death. Such then is the Combat of Larinè on the Táin Bó Cualnge.