[244] Jubainville, D’arbois de, Irish Mythological Cycle, p. 140.
[245] Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, iii., 1.
[246] Ossian, the hero poet of Gaeldom, is represented as old, blind, and solitary.
[247] Cf. Windle, Sir B.C.A., Remains of the Prehistoric Age, pp. 197-8.
[248] Salmon, A.L., Cornwall, p. 88.
[249] Wilson, J.M., The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, i., p. 484.
[250] Anwyl, E., Celtic Religion, p. 39.
[251] “L.V.,” London (undated).
[252] I do not think this proverbially loving couple were exclusively Scotch. The darbies, i.e., handcuffs or clutches of the law may be connoted with Gascoigne’s line (1576): “To bind such babes in father Darbie’s bands”. “Old Joan” figures as one of the characters in the festivities of Plough Monday, and in Cornwall any very ancient woman was denominated “Aunt Jenny”.
[253] Gray, Mrs. Hamilton, Sepulchres of Ancient Etruria, p. 131.