Note 1-1 — Footnotes.

"Now who might he be?" asked Ailill of Fergus. "Well do we know him," Fergus made answer. "He is the bold, the ruthless, 1the swift-moving eagle;1 the eager lance; the goring beast; 2the torrent2 of the Colbtha; 3the border-gate of the north of Erin;3 the triumphant hero from Bailè; he is the shaft (?); a he is the bellowing hero from Bernas ('the Gap'); the furious bull; Menn son of Salcholga, from Rena ('the Waterways') of the Boyne 4in the north; he hath come to take vengeance on ye for his bloody wounds and his sores which ye inflicted on him afore."4