[4] This is the high point, “the size of a pig’s back,” which the sailor saw from the topmast.
[5] Fin’s wisdom came in each case from chewing his thumb, which he pressed once on the Salmon of Knowledge. An account of this is given in a tale in my “Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland,” p. 211.
NOTES.
The tales in this volume were told me by the following persons:—
Nos. [1], [5], [18], [21]. Maurice Lynch, Mount Eagle, West of Dingle, Kerry.
Nos. [2], [11], [24]. John Malone, Rahonain, West of Dingle.