Note 2-2 — Footnotes.

Thereupon each of them went toward the other 2in the middle of the ford,2 and each of them put his hand on the other's neck and gave him three kisses 3in remembrance of his fellowship and friendship.3 Their horses were in one and the same paddock that night, and their charioteers at one and the same fire; and their charioteers made ready a litter-bed of fresh rushes for them with pillows for wounded men on them. Then came healing and curing folk to heal and to cure them, and they laid healing herbs and grasses and a curing charm on their cuts and stabs, their gashes and many wounds. Of every healing herb and grass and curing charm that 4was brought from the fairy dwellings of Erin to Cuchulain and4 was applied to the cuts and stabs, to the gashes and many wounds of Cuchulain, a like portion thereof he sent across the ford westward to Ferdiad, 5to put to his wounds and his pools of gore,5 so that the men of Erin should not have it to say, should Ferdiad fall at his hands, it was more than his share of care had been given to him.