Note 11-11 — Footnotes.

Then it was that the Morrigan daughter of 11Aed11 Ernmas came from the fairy dwellings to destroy Cuchulain. For she had threatened on the Cattle-raid of Regomain a that she would come to undo Cuchulain what time he would be 13in sore distress13 when engaged in 14battle and14 combat with a goodly warrior, 15with Loch,15 in the course of the Cattle-spoil of Cualnge. Thither then the Morrigan W. 2293. came in the shape of a white, 1hornless,1 red-eared heifer, with fifty heifers about her and a chain of silvered bronze between each two of the heifers. 2She bursts upon the pools and fords at the head of the cattle. It was then that Cuchulain said, "I cannot see the fords for the waters."2 The women 3came with their strange sorcery, and3 constrained Cuchulain by geasa and by inviolable bonds 4to check the heifer for them4 lest she should escape from him without harm. Cuchulain made an unerring cast 5from his sling-stick5 at her, so that he shattered one of the Morrigan's eyes.