[{65}] The personage, who figures in the splendid forgeries of MacPherson under the name of Fingal.
[{68}] The Gaelic word for nobleman.
[{72}] Ancient bards, to whose mansion, in the clouds, the speaker hopes that his spirit will be received.
[{73a}] Written in the fifth century.
[{73b}] The British, like many other nations, whose early history is involved in obscurity, claim a Trojan descent.
[{74}] Awen, or poetic genius, which he is said to have imbibed in his childhood, whilst employed in watching the cauldron of the sorceress Cridwen.
[{75}] I was but a child, but am now Taliesin,—Taliesin signifies: brow of brightness.
[{79}] Ale.
[{94}] They had, it seems, made an image of Varus, and besmeared it with some high-smelling ointment, in the hope that Varus, by sympathy, would bear about him the odour of the same, so that the dogs might bay at him in his nocturnal excursions.