Galloping Dick, Richard Ferguson, the highwayman, executed in 1800.
Galloway (The Fair Maid of), Margaret, only daughter of Archibald, fifth earl of Douglas. She married her cousin William, to whom the earldom passed in 1443. After the death of her first husband, she married his brother James (the last earl of Douglas).
Gallowglasses, heavy-armed foot-soldiers of Ireland and the western isles; the light-armed troops were called kernes.
—— the merciless Macdonwald
—— from the western isles
Of kernes and gallowglasses is supplied.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth, act i. sc. 2.
Gallura’s Bird, the cock, the emblem of Gallura in Sardinia, ruled by Nino di Gallura de’Visconti. Dante meets Nino in purgatory, who sends a message to his daughter, but reproaches the mother with her marriage after his death, to Galeazzo de’Visconti of Milan, whose emblem was a viper.
For her so fair a burial will not make
The viper which calls Milan to the field,