Note 1-1 — Footnotes.

W. 4645. He was told that a single man was checking and stopping four of the five grand provinces of Erin 1during the three months of winter1 from Monday at Summer's end till the beginning of Spring. And he felt it unworthy of himself and he deemed it too long that his people were without him. And 2it was then2 he set out 3to the host3 to fight and contend with Cuchulain. And when he was come to the place where Cuchulain was, he saw Cuchulain there moaning, full of wounds and pierced through with holes, and he felt it would not be honourable nor fair to fight and contend with him after the combat with Ferdiad. 4Because it would be said it was not that Cuchulain died of the sores *LL. fo. 93a. and wounds which he would give him so much as of the wounds which Ferdiad had inflicted on him in the conflict before.4 Be that as it might, Cuchulain offered to engage with him in battle and combat.