[5-5] Stowe.

    [1-1] Stowe.

    [2-2] YBL. 41b, 5.

“Look at this bloody wound for me too, O Fingin my master,” said Cethern.  Fingin looked at the bloody wound.  “Why, the feat of arms of two warriors is this,” said the leech; [3]"that is to say, two warriors inflicted these two wounds as one wound upon thee."[3] “Yea, that is true,” answered Cethern.  “There came two [4]men-at-arms[4] upon me in that place; two, with bushy hair on them; two blue cloaks wrapped around them; brooches of silver in the cloaks over their breasts; a necklace of all-white silver around the neck of each of them; [5]two long shields they bore; two hard chains of silver on each of them; a band of silver around them; two five-pointed spears they bore; a vein of silver around them.[5] [6]They smote me this wound and I smote a little wound on each of them."[6] “Indeed we know that pair,” quoth Cuchulain; “Oll and Othine they, of the bodyguard of Ailill and Medb; they never go to a hosting, [7]to battle or combat,[7] but when the wounding of a man is certain.  They would have held [W.4330.] it for victory and triumph and a boast hadst thou fallen at their hands.”

    [3-3] Stowe.

    [4-4] Stowe.

    [5-5] YBL. 41b, 21-26.

    [6-6] Stowe.

    [7-7] Stowe.

“Look on this bloody wound also for me, O Fingin my master,” said Cethern.  Fingin looked closely at the bloody wound.  “There came upon me a pair of young warriors of the Fian,” [1]said Cethern;[1] “a splendid, manly appearance they had.  Each of them cast a spear at me.  I drave this spear through the one of them.”  Fingin looked into the bloody wound.  “Why, this blood is all black,” quoth the leech; “through thy heart those spears passed so that they formed a cross of themselves through thy heart, [2]and thy healing and curing are not easy;[2] and I prophesy no cure here, but I would get thee some healing plants and curing charms that they destroy thee not forthwith.”  “Ah, but we know them, that pair,” quoth Cuchulain; “Bun and Mecconn (’Stump’ and ‘Root’) are they, of the bodyguard of Ailill and Medb.  It was their hope that thou shouldst fall at their hands.”

    [1-1] YBL. 41b, 30.

    [2-2] Stowe.

“Look at this bloody wound for me, too, O Fingin my master,” said Cethern.  Fingin examined the bloody wound.  “Why, it is the red rush of the two sons of Ri Caile (’the King of the Woods’) that is here,” said the leech.  “Aye, ’tis so,” replied Cethern; “there attacked me there two fair-faced, dark-browed youths, huge, with diadems of gold [3]on their heads.[3] Two green mantles folded about them; two pins of bright silver on the mantles over their breasts; two five-pronged spears in their hands.”  “Why, near each other are the bloody wounds they gave thee,” said the leech; “into thy gullet they went, so that the points of the spears struck one another within thee, and none the easier is it to work thy cure here.”  “We know that pair,” quoth Cuchulain; [4]"noble youths of Medb’s great household,[4] Broen and Brudni, are they, [5]two[5] [W.4352.] sons of Ri teora Soillse (’the King of the three Lights’), that is, the two sons of the King of the Woods.  It had been victory and triumph and a boast for them, hadst thou fallen at their hands.”