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CROM-GLEN.
Cbe arpment,
Fingal and his heroes had killed a great number of Scandinavians,
and particularly the most of the king's sons, in a battle at a place called
Cliavan, where Pingal obtained a complete victory over the people of
Lochlin, After these returned to their own country, they were filled
with rage and pride, in consequence of the disgrace and shame thejr
suffered from their wives, and especially their countrymen, because the
brave Caledonians had conquered them. On this account they sent a
treacherous message to Fingal, offering him the king of Lochlin's daugh*
ter in marriage: but Fingal and his people being well acquainted with
their treachery, took with them knives, or dirks, concealed; and when the
men of Lochlin began to put their treachery in execution, Fingal sung
a stanza of a poem concerning the knives, which hjs heroes understood ;
and though the men of Lochlin caused their own people to sit down
with one of Fingal's men between two of them (through pretended
friendsliip), the brave Caledonians killed every man in Beirba*, the ca-
pital of the kingdom of Denmark, and carried off the king's daughter,
a; this poem relates.
I SHALL tell you the true tale (and true it is in-
deed), of the pleasing attachment of the heroes, if
you solicit the recital.
* The capital, or Copenhagen,
Cbe arpment,
Fingal and his heroes had killed a great number of Scandinavians,
and particularly the most of the king's sons, in a battle at a place called
Cliavan, where Pingal obtained a complete victory over the people of
Lochlin, After these returned to their own country, they were filled
with rage and pride, in consequence of the disgrace and shame thejr
suffered from their wives, and especially their countrymen, because the
brave Caledonians had conquered them. On this account they sent a
treacherous message to Fingal, offering him the king of Lochlin's daugh*
ter in marriage: but Fingal and his people being well acquainted with
their treachery, took with them knives, or dirks, concealed; and when the
men of Lochlin began to put their treachery in execution, Fingal sung
a stanza of a poem concerning the knives, which hjs heroes understood ;
and though the men of Lochlin caused their own people to sit down
with one of Fingal's men between two of them (through pretended
friendsliip), the brave Caledonians killed every man in Beirba*, the ca-
pital of the kingdom of Denmark, and carried off the king's daughter,
a; this poem relates.
I SHALL tell you the true tale (and true it is in-
deed), of the pleasing attachment of the heroes, if
you solicit the recital.
* The capital, or Copenhagen,
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| Description | Collected and edited by Hugh and John M'Callum. (Copy at Cam.1.d.30) |
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| Description | Volumes from a collection of 610 books rich in Highland folklore, Ossianic literature and other Celtic subjects. Many of the books annotated by John Francis Campbell of Islay, who assembled the collection. |
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