[891] Pfannenschmidt, 207; Jahn, 240.
[892] Ashton, 47 (Isle of Man, where the day is called ‘Fingan’s Eve’).
[893] Jahn, 253.
[894] F. L. xii. 349; W. Gregor, Brit. Ass. Rept. (1896), 620 (Minnigaff, Galloway; bones being saved up for this fire); Gomme, Brit. Ass. Rept. (1896), 633 (Biggar, Lanarkshire).
[895] Brand, i. 14; Dyer, 22 (Gloucestershire, Herefordshire). Twelve small fires and one large one are made out in the wheat-fields.
[896] Dyer, 507; Ashton, 218; Simpson, 205; Gomme, Brit. Ass. Rept. (1896), 631; F. L. J. vii. 12; Trans. Soc. Antiq. Scot. x. 649.
[897] Simpson, 205, quoting Gordon Cumming, From the Hebrides to the Himalayas, i. 245.
[898] Bede, D. T. R. c. 17: cf. the A.-S. passage quoted by Pfannenschmidt, 495; Jahn, 252. Other Germanic names for the winter months are ‘Schlachtmonat,’ ‘Gormânaða’: cf. Weinhold, Die deutschen Monatsnamen, 54.
[899] Jahn, 229; Tille, Y. and C. 28, 65; Pfannenschmidt, 206, 217, 228.
[900] Dyer, 456, 470, 474, 477; Ashton, 171; Karl Blind, The Boar’s Head Dinner at Oxford and an Old Teutonic Sun-God, in Saga Book of Viking Club for 1895.