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which they pretend to be above description, they say, "unless they had eaten of
the salmon of knowledge, they could not do it justice." — O'Curry On the Mann.,
ii. 143, So Cormac^Tx. sub Caill Crinmon, p. 35. Cf. " The Song of Finn
Mac Cool, composed after his eating of the salmon of knowledge." — Lyra Celtica,
p. 4, note p. 375.
Page 258 — This story, or one similar in its main features, suggested to Scott
his first original ballad, Glenfnlas.
Page 260 —"The black cock of March." Curtin, Tales of the Fairies, p. 115,
says — A cock hatched in March from a cock and hen hatched in March.
MacD. has this note — Is e sin coileach-tighe, dubh 'san dath, agus a thugadh
a mach am mios a' Mhàirt. Cha 'n 'eil coileach eile a ghlaodhas cho fior.
Goiridh e 's a' mhionaid a thionndaidheas an oidhcbe gu la.
Coileach dubh a' Mhàirt
Coileach is fire 'tha.
That is, a domestic cock, hatched in March, and black in colour. No other
cock crows so true. He crows at the very moment when night turns to day.
The black cock or March,
The truest in existence.
Campbell's Superstitions, p. 88, says — " A black cock born fsicj in the busy
time of the year," probably seed time.
See Faclair Gaidhlig, sub Mart.
Page 294 — C.M.R. would read iochd air nachd, and refers to ichd-air-neachd,
at all events, — O'Reilly's Irish Dictionary, p. 300.
Page 298 — Mi fhein is mi fhein. Cf. W.H. Tales, ii. 206.
Page 308. — The Lowland form of the name "Poll na Craobhan " occurs in
an old rhyme at one time popular on Avonside and Speyside :—
And sit weel, Janetie,
And ride weel, Davie,
And your first stop will be
The bottom of Pot Cravie.
Page 310 — The Alnaic is a rugged stream that flows into the Avon at
Delnabo, near Tomintoul,
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