Note 2-2 — Footnotes.

"But, who might he be?" asked Ailill of Fergus. "Aye then we know him," Fergus made answer. "A thirst for valour and prowess; a thirst for madness and fury; 2a man of strength and of courage, of pride and of greatness of heart2 is he that came thither. The welding of hosts and of arms; the point of battle and of slaughter of the men of the north of Erin, mine own real foster-brother himself, Fergus son of Letè, 3the king3 from Linè in the north, is the man yonder!"