Note 6-6 — Footnotes.

Then did Medb despatch the druids 6and the poets of the camp,6 the lampoonists and hard-attackers,a for Ferdiad, to the end that they might make three satires to stay him and three scoffing speeches against him, 7to mock at him and revile and disgrace him,7 that they might raise three blisters on his face, Blame, Blemish and Disgrace, 8that he might not find a place in the world to lay his head,8 W. 3021. if he came not 1with them1 2to the tent of Medb and Ailill on the foray.2