Note 4-4 — Footnotes.

"Still another battalion came thither to the same hill in Slane of Meath," macRoth proceeded. 4"It is the array of an army for greatness.4 Not often is a warrior seen more handsome than the warrior that is in the front rank of that company. Bushy, red-yellow hair he wore; 5his countenance comely, ruddy, well-formed;5 his face 6slender below,6 broad above; a deep-blue-grey, beaming eye, and it flashing and laughing in his head; a well-set, shapely man, tall, slender below and broad above; red, thin lips he had; teeth shining and pearl-like; 7a clear, ringing voice;7 a white-skinned body; 8most beautiful of the forms of men;8 9a purple cloak wrapped around him;9 a brooch of gold in the mantle over his breast; a 10hooded10 tunic of royal silk with a red hem of red gold he wore next to his white skin; a bright, 11curved11 shield with 12wonderful,12 13many-coloured13 devious figures of beasts in red gold thereon 14and with hollows of silver he bore at his left side;14 a gold-hilted, inlaid sword 15hanging from his neck15 at his left side; a long, grey-edged spear W. 5313. along with a cutting bye-spear of attack, with thongs for throwing, with fastenings of silvered bronze, in his hand."