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THE BATTLE OF THE BIRDS. 63
joined above and below by a rope, which is often made of horse-
hair, leather, or twisted bent. The horse's nose goes into it.
The ladder is also the Highland ladder still common in cot-
tages. It consists of a long stick with pegs stuck throurjh it.
There are many stories in Grimm's German collection which
resemble the Battle of the Birds. They have incidents in com-
mon, arranged somewhat in the same order; but the German
stories, taken together, have a character of their own, as the
Gaelic versions have : and both dififer from the Norwegian tale.
Each new Gaelic version which comes to me (and I have received
several since this was written), varies from the rest, but re-
sembles them ; and no single version is like any one of the Ger-
man tales, though German, Norse, and Gaelic all hang together.

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DescriptionItems from a collection of 170 volumes relating to Gaelic matters. Mainly philological works in the Celtic and some non-Celtic languages. Some books extensively annotated by Angus Matheson, the first Professor of Celtic at Glasgow University.
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