It may be also noted that six of Ket’s seven rivals are named among the eighteen Ulster chiefs in the great gathering of Ulster on the Hill of Slane before the final battle of the Tain, Angus being the only one named here who is not in the Hill of Slane list.  Two others in the Hill of Slane list, Fergus mac Lets and Feidlimid, are mentioned elsewhere in this tale.  Several of these are prominent in other tales:  Laegaire (Leary) is a third with Cuchulain and Conall in the Feast of Bricriu, and again in the “Courtship of Emer;” Cuscrid makes a third with the same two principal champions in the early part of the “Sick-bed;” Eogan mac Durthacht is the slayer of the sow of Usnach in the old version of that tale; and Celtchar mac Uitechar is the Master of the Magic Spear in the “Bruiden da Derga,” and has minor romances personal to himself.

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The literal translation of the rhetoric seems to be:  Ket.  “Welcome, Conall! heart of stone:  wild glowing fire:  sparkle of ice:  wrathfully boiling blood in hero breast:  the scarred winner of victory:  thou, son of Finnchoem, canst measure thyself with me!” Conall.  “Welcome, Ket! first-born of Mata! a dwelling place for heroes thy heart of ice:  end of danger (7); chariot chief of the fight:  stormy ocean:  fair raging bull:  Ket, Magach’s son!  That will be proved if we are in combat:  that will be proved if we are separated:  the goader of oxen (?) shall tell of it:  the handcraftsman (?) shall testify of it:  heroes shall stride to wild lion-strife:  man overturns man to-night in this house.”

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The literal translation of the quatrain is in A.O., p. 63.  The quatrain does not occur in the Leinster version.

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Line 4.  “A great oak-tree.”  After the plucking up of the oak-tree by Fergus, the Rawlinson Ms. adds:  “Others say that it was Curoi mac Dari who took the oak to them, and it was then that he came to them, for there was no man of Munster there (before) except Lugaid the son of Curoi and Cetin Pauci.  When Curoi had come to them, he carried off all alone one half of the Boar from all the northern half of Ireland.”  This exploit attributed to Curoi is an example of the survival of the Munster account of the Heroic Age, part of which may be preserved in the tales of Finn mac Cumhail.

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The Rawlinson manuscript adds, after mentioning the rewards given to Ferloga But he did not get the serenade (cepoca), though he got the horses.”  Literal translation of the final poem: 

O lads of Connaught, I will not fill your heaviness with a lying tale; a lad, small your portion, divided the Boar of Mac Datho.

Three fifties of fifty men
are gone with troops of heroes;
combat of pride for that Ailbe,
small the fault in the matter of the dog. 
Victorious Conor came (?),
Ailill of the hosts, and Ket;
Bodb over the slaughters after the fight,
Cuchulain conceded no right.