Note 5-5 — Footnotes.

"Yet another company came thither to the same mound in Slane of Meath," continued macRoth. 5"High spirited and worthy of one another.5 A long-jawed, sallow-faced warrior, 6huge, broad, and tall,6 at the head of that company; black hair on his head; long limbs are his legs; a cloak of red curly wool about him; a brooch of white silver in the cloak over his breast; an 7all-white,7 linen shirt next to his skin; a gory-red shield with a boss 8of gold8 he bore; a sword with hilt of 9white9 silver on his left side; a sharp-cornered, gold-socketed spear he held over him; 10a broad, grey, interwoven spear-head, fairly set on an ashen shaft, in his hand."10 "But, who might he be?" Ailill asked of Fergus. "Truly, we know him," Fergus made answer. 11"The man of three stout blows has come;11 the man of three highways is he; the man of three roads, the man of three paths, the man of three W. 5431. ways; the man of three victories, the man of three triumphs; 1the man of three shouts; the man that breaks battles on foes in another province;1 Fergna son of Findchoem, king of Burach, 2from Coronn,2 3royal hospitaller3 of Ulster in the north, has come thither."