Note 2-2 — Footnotes.
Joseph Dunn translation
"Come now, O Ferdiad," cried Cuchulain, "not meet was it for thee to come to contend and do battle with me, because of the instigation and intermeddling of Ailill and Medb, 2and because of the false promises that they made thee. Because of their deceitful terms and of the maiden have many good men been slain.2 And all that came 3because of those promises of deceit,3 neither profit nor success did it bring them, and they have fallen by me. And none the more, 4O Ferdiad,4 shall it win victory or increase of fame for thee; and, 5as they all fell,5 shalt thou too fall by my hand!" Thus he spake, W. 3486. and he further uttered these words and Ferdiad hearkened to him:—