Note 5-5 — Footnotes.

Another time macRoth surveyed the plain and he saw something: A heavy, grey mist that filled 5the glens and the slopes,5 6the upper void and veil,6 the space between the heavens and earth. It seemed to him that 7the hills7 were islands in lakes that he saw rising up out of the sloping W. 5044. valleys of mist. It seemed to him they were wide-yawning caverns that he saw there leading into that mist. It seemed to him it was all-white, flaxy sheets of linen, or sifted snow a-falling that he saw there through a rift in the mist. It seemed to him it was a flight of many, varied, wonderful, numerous birds 1that hea saw in the same mist,1 or the constant sparkling of shining stars *LL. fo. 96a. on a bright, clear night of hoar-frost, or sparks of red-flaming fire. He heard something: A rush and a din and a hurtling sound, a noise and a thunder, a tumult and a turmoil, 2and a great wind that all but took the hair from hisb head and threw himc on hisb back, and yet the wind of the day was not great.2 He hastened on to impart these tidings at the place where were Ailill and Medb and Fergus and the nobles of the men of Erin. He reported the matter to them.