Note 2-2 — Footnotes.

It was not long that Ferdiad's charioteer remained there when he saw something: 2"How beholdest thou Cuchulain?" asked Ferdiad of his charioteer. "I behold," said he,2 "a beautiful, live-pointed chariot, 3broad above, of white crystal, with a thick yoke of gold, with stout plates of copper, with shafts of bronze, with wheel-bands of bronze covered with silver,3 approaching with swiftness, with speed, with perfect skill; with a green shade, with a thin-framed, dry-bodied (?) box surmounted with feats of cunning, 4straight-poled,4 as long as a warrior's sword. 5On this5 was room for a hero's seven arms, the fair seat for its lord; 6two wheels, dark, black; a pole of tin, with red enamel, of a beautiful colour; two inlaid, golden bridles.6 7This chariot was placed7 behind two fleet steeds, 8nimble, furious, small-headed,8 bounding, large-eared, 9small-snouted, sharp-beaked, red-chested,9 gaily prancing, with inflateda nostrils, broad-chested, quick-hearted, high-flanked, broad-hoofed, slender-limbed, overpowering and resolute. A grey, broad-hipped, small-stepping, long-maned horse, 10whose name was Liath ('the Roan') of Macha,10 was under W. 3379. one of the yokes of the chariot; a black, crispèd-maned, swift-moving, broad-backed horse, 1whose name was Dubh ('the Black') of Sithleann,1 under the other. Like unto a hawk after its prey on a sharp tempestuous day, or to a tearing blast of wind of Spring on a March day over the back of a plain, or unto a startled stag when first roused by the hounds in the first of the chase, *LL. fo. 83b. were Cuchulain's two horses before the chariot, as if they were on glowing, fiery flags, so that they shook the earth and made it tremble with the fleetness of their course.