Note 3-3 — Footnotes.

W. 547. It was on that same day, 3after the coming of the warning from Fergus3 4to the Ulstermen,4 that Cuchulain son of Sualtaim, 5and Sualtaim5 Sidech ('of the Fairy Mound'), his father, 6when they had received the warning from Fergus,6 came so near 7on their watch for the host7 that their horses grazed in pasture round the pillar-stone on Ard Cuillenn ('the Height of Cuillenn'). Sualtaim's horses cropped the grass north of the pillar-stone close to the ground; Cuchulain's cropped the grass south of the pillar-stone even to the ground and the bare stones. "Well, O master Sualtaim," said Cuchulain; "the thought of the host is fixed sharp upon me 8to-night,8 so do thou depart for us with warnings to the men of Ulster, that they remain not in the smooth plains but that they betake themselves to the woods and wastes and steep glens of the province, if so they may keep out of the way of the men of Erin." "And thou, lad, what wilt thou do?" "I must go southwards to Temair to keep tryst with the W. 556. maida of Fedlimid Nocruthach ('of the Nine Forms') 1Conchobar's daughter,1 according to my own agreement, till morning." "Alas, that one should go 2on such a journey,"2 said Sualtaim, "and leave the Ulstermen under the feet of their foes and their enemies for the sake of a tryst with a woman!" "For all that, I needs must go. For, an I go not, the troth of men will be held for false and the promises of women held for true."