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He also put on him that day his fair-day dress. To this apparel about him belonged, namely, a beautiful, well-fitting, purple, fringed, five-folded mantle. A white brooch of 1silvered bronze or of1 white silver incrusted with burnished gold over his fair white breast, as if it were a full-fulgent lantern that eyes of men could not behold *LL. fo. 79a. for its resplendence and crystal shining. A 2striped2 chest-jacket of silk on his skin, fairly adorned with borders and braidings and trimmings of gold and silver and silvered bronze; it reached to the upper hem of his dark, brown-red warlike breeches of royal silk. A magnificent, brown-purple buckler he bore, 3with five wheels of gold on it,3 with a rim of pure white silver around it. A gold-hilted hammered sword 4with ivory guards, raised high at his girdle4 at his left side. A long grey-edged spear together with a trenchant bye-spear for defence, with thongs for throwing and with rivets of whitened bronze, alongside him in the chariot. Nine heads he bore in one of his hands and ten in the other, and these he brandished before the hosts in token of his prowess and cunning. 5This then was a night's attack for Cuchulain on the hosts of four of the five provinces of Erin.5 Medb hid her face beneath a shelter of shields lest Cuchulain should cast at her that day.