[123] The "Mire Chatta," or battle-dance, denotes the frenzy, supposed to animate the combatants, during the period of excitement.
[124] The clan consisted of many septs, whose rights of precedence are not quite ascertained; as Sleat, Clanronald, Glengarry, Keppoch, and Glencoe.
[125] Lit. Lowland or stranger. Killiecrankie and Sheriff Muir, not to mention Innerlochy and Tippermuir, must have blended the dying shrieks of Lowlanders with the triumphant shouts of the Gael. The image is a fine one.
[126] The armorial emblem was gules.
[127] Prince Charles Edward was expected.
[128] Dress ornaments are much prized by the humbler Gael, and make a great figure in their poetry.
[129] The most frequent of all song-images in Gaelic, is the description of yellow or auburn hair.
[130] We must suppose some sylvan social occupation, as oak-peeling or the like, in which Morag and her associates had been employed.
[131] Here follows a catalogue of rival beauties, with satirical descriptions. Cowley has such a list, which may possibly have been in the poet's eye.
[132] Mull.