Note 3-3 — Footnotes.

Now how Cuchulain fared 3is related3 here: He arose not till the day with its bright light had come to him, lest the men of Erin might say it was fear or fright of the champion he had, if he should arise 4early.4 And when day with its full light had come, he 5passed his hand over his face and5 bade his charioteer take his horses and yoke them to his chariot. "Come, gilla," said Cuchulain, "take out our horses for us and harness our chariot, for an early riser is the warrior appointed to meet us, Ferdiad son of Daman son of Darè. 6If Ferdiad awaits us, he must needs think it long."6 "The horses are taken out," 7said the gilla;7 "the chariot is harnessed. Mount, and be it no shame to thy valour 8to go thither!"8 9Cuchulain stepped into the chariot and they pressed forward to the ford.9 Then it was that the cutting, feat-performing, battle-winning, red-sworded hero, Cuchulain son of Sualtaim, mounted his chariot, so that there shrieked around him the goblins and fiends and the sprites of the glens and the demons of the air; for the Tuatha De Danann ('the Folk of the Goddess Danu') were wont to set up their cries around him, to the end that the dread and the fear and the fright and the terror of him might be so much the greater in every W. 3304. battle and on every field, in every fight and in every combat wherein he went.