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Line 4. The delay of Conall and Fergus leads to nothing, it is perhaps an introduction from some third form of the story.
Line 19. Leborcham is, in the story of Deirdre, Deirdre's nurse and confidant.
Line 26. "Their three blemishes."
This disfigurement of the women of Ulster in honour of their chosen
heroes seems to point to a worship of these heroes as gods in the
original legend. It may, however, be a sort of rough humour
intentionally introduced by the author of the form of the story that we
call the Antiquarian form; there are other instances of such humour in
this form of the story.
