[Footnote 23: "_Fianaibh ag Sithcuiraibh_"] [Footnote 24: "_Dan an Fhir Shicair"; Leabhar na Feinne_, pp. 94-95.] [Footnote 25: _Folk-Lore Journal_, vol. vi. 1888, pp. 173-178.] [Footnote 26: _The Fians_, 1891, p. 64.] [Footnote 27: _Ibid._ p. 33.] [Footnote 28: _The Fians_, p. 172. The Fairy Hill referred to is "a hillock, in which there is to be seen a small hollow called the armoury" (p. 174).] [Footnote 29: _Ibid._ pp. 12-13, 166, &c.] [Footnote 30: _Ibid._ pp. 3-4. Glenorchy is said to have teemed with Fenian traditions about the early part of this century (_Proceedings_ of Soc. of Antiq. of Scotland, vol. vii. pp. 237-240).] [Footnote 31: See my _Testimony of Tradition_, London, 1890, pp. 146-8; and Pennant's "Second Tour in Scotland" (Pinkerton's _Voyages,_ London, 1809, vol. iii. p. 368).] [Footnote 32: _Proceedings_ of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. vii. p. 294, _note_.] [Footnote 33: See, for example, an article on "Scottish Customs and Folk lore," in _The Glasgow Herald_ of August 1, 1891.] [Footnote 34: _The Fians_, pp. 78-80.] [Footnote 35: _Scottish Celtic Review_, 1885, pp. 184-90: _The Fians_, pp. 175-184.] [Footnote 36: _The Heimskringla_: Dr. Rasmus B. Anderson's 2nd ed. (1889) of Mr. Samuel Laing's translation from Snorre Sturlason: chap. lxxxiii., _Of Little Fin_.] [Footnote 37: _Leabhar na Feinne_, p. 34. [SUBSEQUENT NOTE.--To be very accurate, one ought to say that, in the pedigree referred to, Fin's grandfather (Trenmor) is stated to have married a Finland woman.]] [Footnote 38: Mr. W.G. Black's _Heligoland_, 1888, chap. iv.] [Footnote 39: With this Fin of Frisian tradition may be compared Fin, a North-Frisian chief of the fifth century, mentioned in _Beowulf_ and _The Gleeman's Tale_, and whose death is recorded in _The Fight at Finnsburk_. [SUBSEQUENT NOTE.--A suitable companion to the dwarf Fin of Frisian tradition is mentioned in Harald Hardradi's Saga:--"Tuta, a Frisian, was with King Harald; he was sent to him for show, for he was short and stout, in every respect shaped like a dwarf."--Quoted by Mr. Du Chaillu at p. 357 of vol. ii. of "The Viking Age."]] [Footnote 40: In this connection it is worth noting that Sir Walter Scott, in referring to the aboriginal or servile clans in 1745, whom he describes as "half naked, _stinted in growth_, and miserable in aspect," includes among them the McCouls, Fin's alleged descendants, who "were a sort of Gibeonites, or hereditary servants to the Stewarts of Appin." (Waverley, ch. xliv.)]