Note a — Footnotes.

Accordingly Cuchulain slept his heavy fit of sleep at 'the Gravemound on the Slopes' till the end of three days and three nights. And well he might sleep. Yet as great as was his sleep, even so great was his weariness. For from the Monday before Samaina ('Summer-end') even to the Wednesday after Spring-beginning,b Cuchulain slept not for all that space, except for a brief snatch after mid-day, leaning against his spear, and his head on his W. 2475. fist, and his fist clasping his spear, and his spear on his knee, *LL. fo. 76b. but hewing and cutting, slaying and destroying four of the five grand provinces of Erin during that time.