Note a — Footnotes.

Then 4arose4 the champion and battle-warrior and the instrument of Badb's corpse-folda among the men of the earth,c Cuchulain son of Sualtaim, and he donned his war-dress of battle and fight and combat. To that war-dress of battle and fight and combat which he put about him belonged seven and twentyb waxed, board-like, equally close skin-tunics which were girded by cords and swathings and ropes on his fair skin, to the end that his wit and reason might not become deranged when the violence of his nature came over him.