Note 5-5 — Footnotes.

Then it was that the issue of blood came upon Medb, 5and she said: "Do thou, Fergus, undertake5 a shield-shelter in the rear of the men of Erin till I let my water flow from me." "By my troth," replied Fergus, "'tis an ill hour for thee to be taken so." "Howbeit there is no help for me," Medb answered; "for I shall not live if I do not void water!" Fergus accordingly came and raised a shield-shelter in the rear of the men of Erin. Medb voided her water, so that it made three large dikes, so that a milla could find room in each dike. Hence the place is known as Fual Medbha ('Medb's Water').