Note 2-2 — Footnotes.

"There came also another company to that same mound," said macRoth. "'Tis the engulphing of the sea for size; red-flaming fire 2for splendour;2 a legion for number; a rock for strength; annihilation for battle; thunder for might. A 3rough-visaged,3 wrathful, terrible, ill-favoured one at the head of that band, and he was big-nosed, large-eared, apple-eyed, 4red-limbed,4 5great-bellied, thick-lipped.5 Coarse, grizzly hair he wore; a streaked-grey cloak about him; a skewer of iron in the cloak over his breast, so that it reached from one of his shoulders to the other; a rough, three-striped tunic next to his skin; a sword of seven charges of remelted iron he bore on his rump; a brown hillock he bore, namely his shield; a great, grey spear with thirty nails driven through its socket he had in his hand. But, what need to tell further? 6All the host arose to meet him, and6 the lines and battalions were thrown into disorder at the sight of that warrior, as he came surrounded by his company to the hill, in Slane of Meath 7and the stream of battle-hosts with him."7 "But who might that man be?" asked Ailill of Fergus. "Ah, but we know him well," Fergus made answer. "He is the half of the battle; he is the head of strife 8of Ulster;8 he is the head 9of combat9 in valour; 10he is the storm-wave that drowneth;10 he is the sea overbounds, the man that is come thither; the mighty Celtchar son of Uthechar, from Lethglass in the north, is the man there!"