This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...to say of Fingal, but he repeatedly mentions Fin-Mac-Coul. "This gigantic man is reported to have been general of a militia that came from Spain to Ireland, and from thence to those isles. All his soldiers are called Fienty from Fiun. He is believed to have arrived in the isles in the reign of King Evan. The natives ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...to say of Fingal, but he repeatedly mentions Fin-Mac-Coul. "This gigantic man is reported to have been general of a militia that came from Spain to Ireland, and from thence to those isles. All his soldiers are called Fienty from Fiun. He is believed to have arrived in the isles in the reign of King Evan. The natives have many stories of this general and his army, with which I will not trouble the reader."--Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, reprint, 1884, p. The story of Fingal was formed by combining two separate ballads, and working in fragments of others. The hero of the first is Cuchullin, of the second, Finn; both are real figures in Celtic legend, but it is Macpherson himself who has brought them together. In the ballads Cuchullin and Finn are never associated. The former is placed in Ulster, the latter in Leinster. Several centuries are supposed to have elapsed between them, Cuchullin belonging to the older legendary period; each is the central hero in a group of tales and romances, and these groups do not overlap. Only at a late date is any confusion of the cycles to be found. The ballad concerning Cuchullin that Macpherson has made use of begins with a dialogue between Connell, King of Ireland, and his porter. Here is a literal translation of the first verses: --152 Another Scotsman, William Shaw, travelled through the Highlands in 1778. He made careful inquiries about Ossian's hero. ' When I asked, and particularly those who were possessed of any poetry, songs, or tales, who Fionn was--for he is not known by the name of Fingal by any--I was answered that he was an Irishman, if a man, for they sometimes thought him a giant, and that he lived in Ireland, and sometimes came over to hunt in the Highlands. This is the universal vo...
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