[a]

'Seven,' YBL. 42b, 38.

[3-3]

YBL. 42b, 38-39.

[4-4]

YBL. 42b, 39-43.

Page 284

[1-1]

YBL. 42b, 43-44.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

Stowe.

Page 285

[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

YBL. 42b, 45.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[a]

'Thirty,' YBL. 42b, 45.

[4-4]

YBL. 42b, 46.

[5-5]

Stowe.

[6-6]

Stowe.

[7-7]

YBL. 42b, 49.

[8-8]

Stowe.

[9-9]

Stowe.

Page 286

[a]

Following Windisch's emendation of the text.

[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

Stowe.

Page 287

[1-1]

Stowe.

[1-1]

The LU. version of the 'White-fight,' which occurs much earlier (fo. 72a, edition of Strachan and O'Keeffe, lines 1457 and fol.), is incorporated with the LL. version above.

[2-2]

LU. 1457.

[3-3]

YBL. 43a, 6.

[4-4]

Stowe.

[5-5]

LU. 1458.

[6-6]

LU. 1460-1463.

[a]

'One hundred fighting men,' LU. 1463.

[7-7]

LU. 1463-1472.

Page 289

[1-1]

LU. 1458.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[a]

Literally, 'whisper.'

[3-3]

YBL. 43a, 10.

[4-4]

Stowe.

[5-5]

YBL. 43a, 10.

[6-6]

YBL. 43a, 10.

[7-7]

YBL. 43a, 11.

[8-8]

LU. 1472-1478.

[9-9]

LU. 1478-1479.

[10-10]

YBL 43a, 17.

Page 290

[a]

'Twelve,' Stowe.

[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

YBL. 43a, 20.

[4-4]

Stowe.

[5-5]

Stowe.

[6-6]

Stowe.

[7-7]

Stowe.

[8-8]

Stowe.

[b]

'Seven hundred,' YBL. 43a, 24 and Stowe.

[9-9]

YBL. 43a, 25.

[10-10]

Stowe.

Page 291

[1]

Stowe.

Page 292

[1-1]

YBL. 43a, 29.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

Stowe.

[5-5]

Stowe.

[6-6]

Stowe.

[a]

The MS. has 'his.'

[7-7]

Stowe.

[8-8]

YBL. 43a, 36.

[9-9]

YBL. 43a, 36.

[10-10]

YBL. 43a, 35.

Page 293

[1-1]

YBL. 43a, 35.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

YBL. 48a, 38.

[5-5]

YBL. 43a, 40.

[6-6]

This is the sense of Zimmer's translation, which is only conjectural, of this difficult passage (see Zeitschrift für Deutsches Alterthum und Deutsche Litteratur, Bd. xxxii, 1888, S. 275). The idea is probably more clearly expressed in Stowe, H. 1. 13 and YBL. 43a, 41, and may be rendered, 'membrum virile ejus coram viros Hiberniae et testes pendentes per currum.'

[7-7]

Stowe and, similarly, H. 1. 13.

[a]

'Said Medb,' Stowe.

[8-8]

Stowe and, similarly, H. 1. 13, Add.

[9-9]

Stowe.

[10-10]

Stowe.

[11-11]

Stowe.

Page 294

[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

Stowe.

[5-5]

Stowe.

[a]

See above, page 279.

[6-6]

Stowe.

[7-7]

Stowe.

[8-8]

Stowe.

Page 295

[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[a]

As a challenge or sign of hostility.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

YBL. 43b, 13-14.

Page 296

[1-1]

YBL. 43b, 17.

[2-2]

YBL. 43b, 14-15.

[3-3]

YBL. 43b, 15.

[4-4]

Reading with Stowe, which is to be preferred to LL.

Page 297

[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

Stowe.

[5-5]

YBL. fo. 43b, 34-36.

[6-6]

Stowe.

Page 298

[1-1]

YBL. 43b, 38-39.

[2-2]

YBL. 43b, 39-40.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[a]

'Twelve,' YBL. 43b, 41.

[4-4]

Stowe.

[5-5]

Stowe and YBL. 43b, 42.

[6-6]

Stowe.

[7-7]

YBL. 43b, 46.

[8-8]

Stowe.

[9-9]

Stowe.

Page 299

[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

Stowe.

[5-5]

Stowe.

[6-6]

Stowe.

[7-7]

YBL. 43b, 49.

Page 300

[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

YBL. 44a, 9.

[4-4]

YBL. 44a, 13.

[5-5]

YBL. 44a, 13.

[6-6]

YBL. 44a, 15.

Page 301

[1-1]

Stowe.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

Stowe.

[5-5]

YBL. 44a, 28.

[6-6]

YBL. 44a, 32-33.

[7-7]

Stowe.

[a]

Reading with LL. 5027 and 5975, which gives better meaning than the expression 'fort-face,' of LL.

[8-8]