[37] For references see my Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe, pp.30-31.
[38] Notes to Thalaba, Book V, Canto 36.
[39] Henry V, V, iii, 6.
[40] For other examples see Mr. Legge's article in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, 1899. p. 310.
[41] The Abbé Breuil, having examined the artifacts associated with the Western Scottish harpoons, inclines to refer to the culture as "Azilian-Tardenoisian". At the same time he considers the view that Maglemosian influence was operating is worthy of consideration. He notes that traces of Maglemosian culture have been reported from England. The Abbé has detected Magdalenian influence in artifacts from Campbeltown, Argyllshire (Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland, 1921-2).
[42] Eirikr Magnusson in Notes on Shipbuilding and Nautical Terms, London, 1906.
[43] Pronounced ma-haw'-baw'-rata (the two final a's are short).
[44] The Orkneyinga Saga, p. 182, Edinburgh, 1873, and Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Vol. VIII.
[45] Clement Reid, Submerged Forests, pp. 45-7. London, 1913.
[46] The dates of the greatest disasters on record are 1421, 1532, and 1570. There were also terrible inundations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and in 1825 and 1855.