1. Mygg, or long nose (Culex pipiens), the wretch of stinging bite and blasphemous song.
2. Knott (C. reptans), a villain that keeps close to the ground, and avoids horses.
3. Hya or Gnadd (C. pulicaris), the smallest of the family, but when it “sticks,” as the Swedes say, violent itching is the result.
[333] The fowl rope contained sixteen ox hides, and the seven pieces each measured eighty fathoms. Early in the present century it cost only $10.
[334] One of those in the Lerwick Museum was taken out of the peat-moss six feet beneath the surface.
[335] On some Remarkable Discoveries of Rude Stone Implements in Shetland, by Arthur Mitchell, F.S.A., from Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. vii, 1866-67.
[336] Dr Mitchell, paper supra cit.
[337] At Ephesus blue formed the background of enrichments and sculpture in relief, whilst brilliant reds and yellows were applied to the parts requiring greater prominence. The idea that red, green, and blue, are primitives, with yellow, sea-green, and pink for complements, is very modern and rather startling.
[338] He attributes (p. 49) the fire to crushed driftwood, but Adam of Bremen declares the ice to be so dry that it can burn.
[339] The Icelandic “fugl” is especially applied to the gull. “Fowl-isle” amongst the Scandinavians meant an isolated rock lying far out to sea, and supposed to represent a bird swimming.