Note 2-2 — Footnotes.
Joseph Dunn translation
W. 2851. The hosts of the four grand provinces of Erin pitched camp and entrenched themselves for that night at the pillar-stone in Crich Roiss ('the Borders of Ross'). Then Medb called upon the men of Erin for one of them to contend and do battle with Cuchulain on the morrow. And every one of them spake thus: "It shall not be I! it shall not be I!" 2cried each from his place.2 "No victim is owing from my people, 3and even if one were it would not be myself whom ye would send as a victim in his stead.3 4I will not be the man to go in his place to fight with Cuchulain till the very day of doom and of life!"4