Fians, Fairies and Picts by David MacRitchie
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[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 |
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