Note 4-4 — Footnotes.

"Ye men," spake Medb, in the wonted fashion of stirring up disunion and dissension, 4as if she had not heard Ferdiad at all,4 "true is the word Cuchulain speaks." "What word is that?" asked Ferdiad. "He said, then," replied Medb, "he would not think it too much if thou shouldst fall by his hands in the choicest feat of his skill in arms, in the land whereto he should come." "It was not just for him to speak so," quoth Ferdiad; "for it is not cowardice or lack of boldness that he hath ever seen in me 5by day or by night.5 6And I speak not so to him, for I have it not to say of him.6 And I swear by my arms 7of valour,7 if it be true that he spoke so, I will be the first man of the men of Erin to contend with him on the morrow, 8how loath soever I am to do so!"8