Note 12-12 — Footnotes.

Then Medb ordered out the hundred 12armed12 warriors 13of her body-guard13 at one and the same time to assail Cuchulain. Cuchulain attacked them all, so that they fell by his hand 14at Ath Ceit Cuilè ('Ford of the First Crime').14 "It is a dishonour for us that our people are slaughtered in this wise," quoth Medb. "It is not the first destruction that has befallen us from that same man," replied Ailill. Hence Cuilenn Cind Duni ('The Destruction of the Head W. 2426. of the Dûn') is henceforth the name of the place where they were,1 the mound whereon Medb and Ailill tarried that night.1 Hence Ath Cro ('Gory Ford') is the name of the ford where they were, 2and Glass Cro ('River of Gore') the name of the stream.2 And fittingly, too, because of the abundance of gore and blood that went with the flow of the river.