H. 2. 17.

[6-6]

LU. and YBL. 839 and Stowe.

[7-7]

H. 2. 17.

[8-8]

H. 2. 17.

[9-9]

Stowe.

[10-10]

H. 2. 17.

Page 87

[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 835.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 835.

Page 88

[1-1]

The superscription is taken from LU. fo. 64a, in the margin.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 813.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 820-831 and, partly, in Eg. 1782.

[a]

Literally, 'your.'

Page 89

[a]

'Garech,' LU. and YBL. 827.

[1-1]

H. 2. 17.

[b]

See above, p. 41.

[4-4]

H. 2. 17.

[c]

That is, Cuchulain.

[d]

That is, the Amazons.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 820-831 and, partly, in Eg. 1782.

Page 90

[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 853.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 857.

[4-4]

LU. and YBL. 842-843.

[5-5]

H. 2. 17.

[6-6]

LU. and YBL. 844.

[7-7]

H. 2. 17.

[8-8]

H. 2. 17.

[9-9]

H. 2. 17.

[10-10]

H. 2. 17.

[11-11]

H. 2. 17.

[a]

The following passage in 'rosc' is exceedingly difficult and obscure, and the translation given here is consequently incomplete and uncertain.

[12-12]

LU. and YBL. 846, and Stowe.

Page 91

[a]

The Morrigan, the Irish goddess of battle, most often appeared in the form of a raven.

[1-1]

Reading with H. 2. 17.

[b]

Translating cloe, as suggested by Windisch.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

H. 2. 17.

[4-4]

LU. and YBL. 854, and H. 2. 17.

[5-5]

LU. and YBL. 855-856.

[6-6]

Stowe.

[7-7]

H. 2. 17.

[8-8]

H. 2. 17.

[9-9]

H. 2. 17.

[c]

Apparently the name of some game.

[10-10]

H. 2. 17.

[11-11]

H. 2. 17.

Page 92

[1-1]

H. 2. 17.

[2-2]

LU. 860.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 858-863.

Page 93

[1-1]

LU. fo. 65a, in the margin.

[a]

'forty,' H. 2. 17.

[2-2]

H. 2. 17.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

H. 2. 17.

[5-5]

LU. and YBL. 867-887.

Page 94

[1-1]

YBL. 882, which adds: 'We will not follow it further here.'

[2-2]

LU., edition of Strachan and O'Keeffe, page 34, note 16.

[5-5]

(See page 93) LU. and YBL. 867-887.

Page 95

[1-1]

LU. fo. 65a, in the margin.

[2-2]

H. 2. 17.

[3-3]

H. 2. 17.

[4-4]

Stowe.

[5-5]

LU. 887, a gloss.

[a]

H. 2. 17 has 'fifty charioteers.'

[6-6]

LU. and YBL. 889.

[7-7]

LU. and YBL. 889.

[8-8]

H. 2. 17.

[9-9]

H. 2. 17.

[10-10]

H. 2. 17.

Page 96

[1-1]

H. 2. 17.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

H. 2. 17.

[4-4]

H. 2. 17.

[5-5]

H. 2. 17.

[6-6]

LU. and YBL. 891.

[7-7]

LU. and YBL. 900.

[8-8]

Stowe and H. 2. 17.

[9-9]

H. 2. 17.

[10-10]

H. 2. 17; the story of the finding of the Táin is told in the Imtheacht na Tromdhaimhe ("The Proceedings of the Great Bardic Institution"), edited by Owen Connellan, in the Transactions of the Ossianic Society, vol. v, 1857, pp. 103 fl.

[11-11]

Stowe.

[12-12]

H. 2. 17.

[13-13]

LU. and YBL. 893.

Page 97

[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 895.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 896.

[4-4]

H. 2. 17.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 898-899.

[5-5]

Stowe.

[6-6]

H. 2. 17.

[7-7]

H. 2. 17.

[8-8]

H. 2. 17.

[9-9]

LU. and YBL. 909.

[10-10]

H. 2. 17.

[11-11]

H. 2. 17.

[12-12]

LU. and YBL. 910.

Page 98

[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 912-914.

[2-2]

YBL. 914.

Page 99

[1-1]

LU. fo. 65b, in the margin.

[3-3]

LU. 930.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 916-1197, omitting 1079-1091.

Page 100

[a]

Here follows in LU. and YBL. 946-1020, Eg. 1782, a most difficult passage, rendered more obscure by the incorporation of glossarial notes into the body of the text. It is almost incapable of translation; it consists of a dialogue or series of repartees during a game of chess, in which Ailill taunts Fergus on the episode just narrated and Fergus replies.

Page 101

[a]

That is, the men of Erin.

[b]

That is, Cuchulain and Laeg.

[c]

See above, page 97.

[1-1]

LU. 1041.

Page 102

[1-1]

Literally, 'if there oppose me the strength of each single man.'

[a]

The sense of this proposal of Ailill's, omitted in the translation (LU. 1064-1069 and Eg. 1782), is not clear.

[3-3]

'Lugaid,' LU. 1069.

[4-4]

YBL. 1075; but, 'they would be twenty nights there, as other books say,' LU.

Page 103

[2-2]

See note 2-2, page 99.

Page 104

[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 1097.

[2-2]

LU. and YBL. 1098.

[3-3]

LU. and YBL. 1100-1101.

[4-4]

LU. and YBL. 1100-1102.

[5-5]

H. 2. 17.

[6-6]

H. 2. 17.

Page 105

[1-1]

LU. and YBL. 1103-1105.

[2-2]

H. 2. 17.

[3-3]

H. 2. 17.

[4-4]

H. 2. 17.

[5-5]

H. 2. 17.

[6-6]

H. 2. 17.

[7-7]

Stowe.

[a]

That is, Conchobar.

[8-8]

Stowe.

Page 106

[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

H. 2. 17.

Page 107

[1-1]

Stowe.

[a]

Literally, 'love.'

[2-2]