Note 1-1 — Footnotes.

"Yet another company there came to the same mound in Slane of Meath," said macRoth. 1"Not fewer than a battalion of thirty hundred was in it.1 A fair, tall, great warrior *LL. fo. 98a. in the van of that battalion, and he of fiery spirit, with noble countenance. Brown, dark-coloured hair he wore, smooth and thin on his forehead; a dull-grey cloak girt around him; a silver pin in the cloak over his breast; a bright, sleeved tunic next to his skin; a curved shield with sharp, plaited rim he bore; a five-pronged spear in his hand; a straightsword with ornaments of walrus-tooth in its place." "But, who might that be?" asked Ailill of Fergus. "In very sooth, we know him," Fergus made answer. "The putting of hands on strife is he; a battle-warrior for combat and destruction on foes is the one who is come there, 2even2 Eogan son of Durthacht, 3king of the stout-handed3 Fernmag in the north, is the one yonder."