They are occasionally represented without either sword or quiver, but more usually they have a short sword at their left side, which appears to have been passed through their coat of mail, between the armor plates, and in a few instances they have also quivers at their backs.

Where these are lacking, they generally either carry two extra arrows in their right hand, or have the same number borne for them by an attendant.

They are never seen unattended: sometimes they have one, sometimes two attendants, who accompany them, and guard them from attack.

One of these almost always bears the long wicker shield, called by the Greeks [yeppov] which he rests firmly upon the ground in front of himself and comrade.

The other, where there is a second, stands a little in the rear, and guards the archer's head with a round shield or targe.
Both attendants are dressed in a short tunic, a phillibeg, a belt, and a pointed helmet.