[[111]] Campbell's West Highland Tales, vol. iii, p. 74.
[[112]] West Highland Tales, vol. iii, pp. 85, 86.
[[113]] If Finn and his band were really militiamen--the original Fenians--as is believed in Ireland, they may have had attached to their memories the legends of archaic Iberian deities who differed from the Celtic Danann deities. Theodoric the Goth, as Dietrich von Bern, was identified, for instance, with Donar or Thunor (Thor), the thunder god. In Scotland Finn and his followers are all giants. Diarmid is the patriarch of the Campbell clan, the MacDiarmids being "sons of Diarmid".
[[114]] Isaiah condemns a magical custom connected with the worship of Tammuz in the garden, Isaiah, xvii, 9, 11. This "Garden of Adonis" is dealt with in the next chapter.
[[115]] Quotations are from Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms, translated by Stephen Langdon, Ph.D. (Paris and London, 1909), pp. 299-341.
[[116]] Beowulf, translated by J.R. Clark Hall (London, 1911), pp. 9-11.
[[117]] For Frey's connection with the Ynglings see Morris and Magnusson's Heimskringla (Saga Library, vol. iii), pp. 23-71.
[[118]] The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 72.
[[119]] Langdon's Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms, pp. 325, 339.
[[120]] Professor Oldenberg's translation.