Stowe and Eg. 209.
Reading taobh re taobh.
Omitting seng; the line has a syllable too many in the original.
Eg. 106 (Revue Celtique, tome xi, p. 327).
Eg. 106.
That is, in Ulster. Stowe and Eg. 106 read '(with his face) to the south.'
That is, in Connacht.
Stowe.
Stowe.
The order of these two paragraphs is that of Stowe; they are found in the reverse order in LL.
Reading with Stowe.
Eg. 209.
This difficult sentence is composed of two alliterating groups, which it is impossible to follow in the translation.
That is, the battle breach.
That is, the fury of war and carnage which appeared in the form of a carrion crow.
Stowe, Eg. 106 and Eg. 209.
That is, Conlaech.
Stowe.
Stowe.
Stowe.
Reading with YBL. 39b, 31, as more intelligible than the 'chess-board' of LL., which occurs in the next stanza.
YBL. 39b, 31-33.
YBL. 39b, 35-39.
A term of endearment which survives in Modern Irish.
That is, Ferbaeth.
That is, as prisoners.
Referring to the Celtic custom of binding an alliance by each of the parties thereto drinking the blood of the other.
That is, Ferdiad.
An old name for Ireland.
Stowe and Eg. 209.
This sub-title is supplied by Windisch.
YBL. 40a, 1-2.
YBL. 40a, 3.
Stowe.
Stowe.
This heading is taken from the colophon of the episode.
YBL. 40a, 9-12.
YBL. 40a, 12-13.
YBL. 40a, 12-14.
Stowe.
Stowe.
Stowe, and YBL. 41a, 10.
YBL. 41a, 11.
YBL. 41a, 15.
YBL. 40a, 17.
YBL. 40a, 17.
YBL. 40a, 18.
Stowe.
Stowe and YBL. 41a, 10.
Stowe.
Stowe.
I have translated from the more circumstantial account in Stowe. LL. has, simply, 'his entrails and bowels outside on him.'
YBL. 40a, 21.
YBL. 40a, 22.
YBL. 40a, 23-24.
Stowe.
YBL. 40a, 29.
Stowe.
YBL. 40a, 31-33.
'Fifty or fifteen,' YBL. 40a, 35.
Stowe, H. 1. 13 and Add. 18,748.
Stowe.
YBL. 40a, 40.
Stowe.
The heading is taken from LL.
Stowe.
Stowe.
YBL. 41b, 19.
Stowe.
Stowe.
YBL. 41b, 5.
Stowe.
Stowe.
YBL. 41b, 21-26.
Stowe.
Stowe.
YBL. 41b, 30.
Stowe.
Stowe.
YBL. 41b, 41.
Stowe.
YBL. 42a, 28.
YBL. 42a, 30-31.
Stowe.
Stowe.
Stowe.
Stowe and YBL. 42a, 1.
Stowe.
Stowe.
Stowe.
Stowe.
YBL. 42a, 50-51.
That is, 'extreme or drastic.'
Stowe.
YBL. 42b, 7.
YBL. 42b, 8-9.
YBL. 42b, 10-11.
YBL. 42b, 13.
YBL. 42b, 14.
YBL. 42b, 16.
YBL. 42b, 17.
YBL. 42b, 18-19.
See above, page 272.
Stowe.
Stowe.
YBL. 42b, 20.
YBL. 42b, 22.
Stowe.
Stowe.
Stowe.
YBL. 42b, 24.
Stowe.
Stowe.
YBL. 42b, 29-30.
Omitting i tri, 'in three'; it is not found in Stowe or in YBL. and seems out of place here.
Stowe.
Stowe.
Stowe.
Stowe, H. 1. 13 and Add. 18,748.
Reading Finna, to agree with the reading in LL., supra, page 279. Inna, in Stowe, etc.
That is, unshrived of their sins (?), a Christian intrusion
Literally, 'heifer's.'
Literally, 'a bull.'
In Irish, Dun cind eich.
In Irish, Innis ruaidh.
See note 4, page 211.
Stowe.
YBL. 42b, 36.