Stowe and Add.

[3-3]

Stowe and Add.

[4-4]

LU. 196.

[a]

Literally, 'of Ailill's spouse.'

[b]

That is, Cuchulain.

[c]

A kenning for 'blood.'

[d]

Referring to the two bulls, the Brown and the Whitehorned, which were the re-incarnations through seven intermediate stages of two divine swineherds of the gods of the under-world. The story is told in Irische Texte, iii, i, pp. 230-275.

[5-5]

LU. 198-205.

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[a]

Literally, 'the Contorted one'; that is, Cuchulain.

[1-1]

Gloss in YBL. 211.

[b]

'his' Eg. 1782.

[9-9]

YBL. and LU. 206-215. With this passage YBL. begins, fo. 17a.

[2-2]

LU. 215.

[3-3]

LU. 218

[4-4]

Eg. 1782.

[5-5]

Sualtach, in LL.

[6-6]

Eg. 1782.

[7-7]

Eg. 1782.

[8-8]

LU. and YBL. 220.

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[a]

"Who was secretly as a concubine with Cuchulain"; gloss in LU. and YBL. 222 and Eg. 1782.

[1-1]

Eg. 1782.

[2-2]

Stowe and Add.

[b]

The old kind of writing of the Irish.

[3-3]

Eg. 1782.

[4-4]

LU. and YBL. 245-246.

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[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 250.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 252-258.

[3-3]

Reading with Stowe, Add. and H. 1. 13.

[4-4]

Reading with LU. and YBL. 261.

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[1-1]

LU., marginal note.

[a]

The name of the festal hall of the kings of Ulster.

[2-2]

Eg. 1782.

[3-3]

LU. 270.

[4-4]

Reading with Stowe.

[5-5]

LU. 271.

[6-6]

LU. and YBL. 273.

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[1-1]

A gloss in YBL. 274; found also in Eg. 1782.

[2-2]

YBL. 276-283.

[3-3]

'Fedaduin,' MS.

[4-4]

Eg. 1782.

[a]

'Girdles,' LU. and YBL. 284; 'shields,' Eg. 1782.

[b]

'Wheels,' LU. and YBL. 285 and Eg. 1782.

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[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 287.

[2-2]

Reading with Stowe.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 288.

[4-4]

LU. and YBL. 289.

[5-5]

LU. and YBL. 290.

[6-6]

Stowe.

[7-7]

Stowe.

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[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 294-295.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 297.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 297.

[4-4]

LU. and YBL. 297-298.

[5-5]

LU. and YBL. 298-299.

[6-6]

LU. and YBL. 302.

[7-7]

LU. and YBL. 302.

[8-8]

Stowe.

[9-9]

LU. fo. 58a, in the margin.

[10-10]

LU. fo. 58a, in the margin.

[11-11]

Stowe, and LU. fo. 58a, 24, marginal note.

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[a]

A sign of enmity.

[b]

Belach ('the Pass'), Eg. 1782.

[1-1]

Eg. 1782.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 304.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 305.

[4-4]

Stowe.

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[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 306.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 306.

[4-4]

Stowe.

[5-5]

Stowe.

[6-6]

LU. and YBL. 310.

[7-7]

Stowe.

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[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 313.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 314.

[4-4]

LU. and YBL. 314-318.

[a]

So Stowe; LL. has 'Grena.'

Page 39

[a]

That is, Ath Gabla.

Page 40

[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 322.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 324.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

Stowe.

[5-5]

Stowe.

[a]

"Fourteen," LU. and YBL. 325 and Eg. 1782.

[6-6]

Stowe.

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[1-1]

Stowe.

[a]

Literally, 'painless,' referring to Cuchulain's exemption from the cess or 'debility' of the Ulstermen.

[2-2]

Reading with Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[b]

Translating from Stowe; LL. has 'his' or 'its.'

[c]

That is, Cuchulain.

Page 42

[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 329-330.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 331.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 333.

Page 43

[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

LU. and YBL. 337-340.

Page 44

[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 342-345.

[a]

'Seventh,' YBL. 344.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 345.

[4-4]

LU. 346-347, and, similarly, YBL.

[b]

"Eight," YBL.

[5-5]

LU. and YBL. 349.

[6-6]

LU. 349-350.

[7-7]

LU. and YBL. 350.

[8-8]

LU. and YBL. 351-352.

[9-9]

LU. and YBL. 352.

[10-10]

LU. and YBL. 354.

[11-11]

YBL. 354.

[12-12]

LU. and YBL. 355-356.

[13-13]

LU. and YBL. 356-357.

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[a]

Reading with Stowe, LU. and YBL. 359, which is more intelligible than 'on each hair,' which is the translation of LL.

[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 363.

[2-2]

'That is not true,' Stowe.

[3-3]

Stowe.

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[1]

Reading with LU. and YBL. 367.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 368-369.

[3-3]

Eg. 1782.

[4-4]

LU. and YBL. 371.

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[1-1]

Eg. 1782.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 376-377.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 377.

[4-4]

LU. and YBL. 380.

Page 48

[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 382-384.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 384-385.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

LU. and YBL. 391.

[5-5]

Stowe.

[6-6]