House of Argyll and the collateral branches of the clan Campbell, from the year 420 to the present time

APPENDIX.
In the foregoing Genealogy the authors of the old manuscripts,
while recording all that they thought necessary to make a
continuous narrative, have yet left out many incidents in the
family history that are worthy of record. As we have scrupu-
lously abstained from interfering with the text, and were not
desirous of overloading it with notes, we have thought it
better to make this appendix, in which they can appear
along with one or two of the best authenticated traditions of
the family. Amongst the latter we may class the " Lay of
Diarmid," as recorded by that painstaking and indefatigable
collector of Gaelic stories, J. F. Campbell, Esq., who has
published four volumes of West Highland Tales, which he
has dedicated to the present Marquis of Lome.
In these volumes the Gaelic scholar, as well as the ordinary
reader, may find much that is curious and rare. The compiler
has here done for Scottish tradition what the Brothers Grim
accomplished for Germany, and in both cases it appears to have
been a labour of love to the author to travel through the length
and breadth of the land to gather up the fragments of tradi-
tionary lore scattered amongst the rural population. In a
history of the Campbells, it cannot be out of place to quote
from a work of one of the many authors that Clan has pro-
duced. We therefore insert his preface and part of the story
of Diarmid.
Some writers have endeavoured to trace the name as well as
the lineage of the Campbells up to Diarmid O'Duine, they
say, " It is personal, like some others of the Highland names,
being composed of the words Cam, bent or arched, and heal,
mouth, this having been the most prominent feature of the
great ancestor of the Clan Diarmid, a brave warrior, celebrated
in traditional story, and contemporary with the heroes of