Note 2-2 — Footnotes.

Laeg went his way to the quarters and camp of the men of Erin, and he called upon the leeches of the men of Erin to go forth to cure Cethern son of Fintan. Truth to tell, the leeches of the men of Erin were unwilling to go cure their adversary, their enemy and their stranger-foe. But they feared Cuchulain would work death and destruction and slaughter upon them if they went not. And so they went. As one man of them 2after the other2 came to him, Cethern son of Fintan showed him his stabs and his cuts, his sores and his bloody wounds. 3When the first leech that came looked at him, "thou wilt not live," he declared. "Neither wilt thou for this," replied Cethern.3 Each man of them that said he would not live and could not be healed, Cethern son of Fintan struck him a blow with his right fist in the front of his forehead, so that he drove the brains out through the windows of his ears and the seams of his skull. Howbeit Cethern son of Fintan killed them till, by reason of him, there had come fifteena leeches of the leeches of the men of Erin, 4as the historian hath declared in proof thereof:—