Note 14-14 — Footnotes.

14Then did Cuchulain to the Morrigan the three things he had threatened her on the Cattle-raid of Regomain,14 and his anger arose within him and he *LL. fo. 75a. wounded Loch with the Gae Bulga ('the Barbed-spear'), so that it passed through W. 2307. his heart in his breast. 1For truly it must have been that Cuchulain could not suffer the treacherous blows and the violence of Loch Mor the warrior, and he called for the Gae Bulgae from Laeg son of Riangabair. And the charioteer sent the Gae Bulga down the stream and Cuchulain made it ready. And when Loch heard that, he gave a lunge down with his shield, so that he drove it over two-thirds deep into the pebbles and sand and gravel of the ford. And then Cuchulain let go the Barbed-spear upwards, so as to strike Loch over the border of his hauberk and the rim of his shield.1 2And it pierced his body's covering, for Loch wore a horn skin when fighting with a man,2 3so that his farther side was pierced clear after his heart had been thrust through in his breast.3