Note 2-2 — Footnotes.

Conchobar went his way to the place where he heard the battle had gone three times *LL. fo. 102b. against him from the north. 2Then Conchobar made a rush at Fergus,2 and he lifted shield against shield there, namely against Fergus mac Roig, even Ochain ('the Fair-ear')a of Conchobar with its four ears of gold and its four bracings of red gold. Therewith Fergus gave three stout blows of Badb on the Ochain of Conchobar, so that Conchobar's shield cried aloud on him 3and the three chief waves of Erin gave answer, the Wave of Clidna, the Wave of Rudraige and the Wave of Tuag, to wit.3 Whenever Conchobar's shield cried out, the shields of all the Ulstermen cried out. However great the strength and power with which Fergus smote Conchobar on the shield, so great also was the might and valour wherewith Conchobar held the shield, so that the ear of the shield did not even touch the ear of Conchobar.