Note 3-3 — Footnotes.

3Then it was debated by the men of Erin who would be fitted to fight and contend with Cuchulain and ward him off from them on the ford at the morning-hour early on the morrow. What they all agreed was that it should be Loch Mor ('the Great') son of Mofemis, the royal champion of Munster.3 W. 2260. It was then that Loch Mor son of Mofemis was summoned 4like the rest4 to the pavilion of Ailill and Medb, 5and he was promised the equal of Mag Murthemni of the smooth field of Mag Ai, and the accoutrement of twelve men, and a chariot of the value of seven bondmaids.5 "What would ye of me?" asked Loch. "To have fight with Cuchulain," replied Medb. "I will not go on that errand, for I esteem it no honour nor becoming to attack a tender, young, smooth-chinned, beardless boy. 6'Tis not seemly to speak thus to me, and ask it not of me.6 And not to belittle him do I say it, but I have 7a doughty brother, 8the match of himself,"8 said Loch,7 "a man to confront him, Long macEmonis, to wit, and he will rejoice to accept an offer from you; 9and it were fitting for him to contend with Cuchulain for Long has no beard on cheek or lip any more than Cuchulain."9