Note 1-1 — Footnotes.

"What was that there, O Fergus?" asked Ailill; 1"to what likenest thou it?"1 "Not hard 2for me to say what it resembled.2 It was the rush and tramp and clatter that he heard," said Fergus, "the din and thunder, the tumult and turmoil 3of the Ulstermen.3 It was the men of Ulster 4arising from their 'Pains,'4 who have come into the woods, the throng of champions and battle-heroes cutting down with their swords the woods in the way of their chariots. This it was that hath put the wild animals to flight on the plain, so that the grassy forelocks of the field of Meath are hidden beneath them!"