Note 1-1 — Footnotes.

W. 6099. Then 1when the battle had been lost,1 Fergus 2began to view2 the host as it went westwards of Ath Mor. "It was thus indeed it behoved this day to prove, for following in the lead of a woman," 3said Fergus.3 "Faults and feuds have met here to-day," 4said Medb4 to Fergus. "Betrayed and sold is this host to-day," 5Fergus answered.5 "And even as a brood-mare leads her foals into a land unknown, without a head to advise or give counsel before them, such is the plight of this host to-day 6in the train of a woman that hath ill counselled them."6