FOOTNOTES

[1] The words Elfin and Fairy are, in these pages, used indifferently as equivalents of the Gaelic names, sìth (or shi) people, etc.

[2] These virtues it is to have only thrice, and it has been already unfurled twice. Many of the common people wanted it brought out at the time of the potato failure.

[3] Fairy motion, i.e. not rising and falling on the waves, but gliding smoothly along.

[4]

“Seachad air Grianaig,

Mar fhiadh nam beann fuara,

Direadh ri uchd garbhlaich,

’S an sealgair ga ruagadh,