Note 4-4 — Footnotes.

"Hark, ye men of Erin," shouted the leech; "Cethern son of Fintan comes to attack you, now that he has been healed and cured by Fingin the prophetic leech, and take ye heed of him!" Thereat the men of Erin 4in fear4 put Ailill's dress and his golden shawl 5and his regal diadem5 on the pillar-stone in Crich Ross, that it might be thereon that Cethern son of Fintan should first give vent to his anger on his arrival. 6Eftsoons6 Cethern 7reached the place where he7 saw those things, namely Ailill's dress and his golden shawl around the standing-stone in Crich Ross, and he, being unaware and weetless, conceived it to be Ailill himself that was in it. And he made a rush at it like a blast of wind and drave the sword through the stone pillar till it went up to its pommel, 8so that his fist went through it after the sword.8 "Deceit is here," cried Cethern son of Fintan, "and on me have ye worked this deceit. And I swear an oath, till there be found among ye 9of the men of Erin9 one that will put yon royal dress about him and the golden shawl, I will not stay my hand from them, slaughtering and destroying withal!"