Note 2-2 — Footnotes.

2Thereupon Laeg came forward to the brink of the river and to the place where the fresh water was dammed, and the Gae Bulga was sharpened and set in position. He filled the pool and stopped the stream and checked the tide of the ford. Ferdiad's charioteer watched the work, for Ferdiad had said to him early 3in the morning:3 "Now, gilla, do thou hold back Laeg from me to-day, and I will hold back Cuchulain from thee 4and thy men forever."4 "This is a pity," quoth the henchman; "no match for him am I; for a man to combat a hundred is he 5amongst the men of Erin,5 and that am I not. Still, however slight his help, it shall not come to his lord past me."