[ [219] Hail, Mary! The beginning of the Roman Catholic prayer to the Virgin Mary.
[ [220] “Down of eider,” i.e., the soft breast feathers of the eider duck.
[ [221] Wild.
[ [222] “Boune” itself means “ready” in Scotch: hence its use here is tautology.
[ [223] “Inured to bide,” etc., i.e., accustomed to endure privations, the warrior may withstand the coming storm.
[ [224] Command; order.
[ [225] An old Highland mode of “reading the future.” “A person was wrapped up in the skin of a newly slain bullock, and deposited beside a waterfall, or at the bottom of a precipice, or in some other strange, wild, and unusual situation. In this situation he revolved in his mind the question proposed, and whatever was impressed upon him by his exalted imagination passed for the inspiration of the disembodied spirits who haunt the desolate recesses.”—Scott.
[ [226] South of Loch Lomond.
[ [227] Foot soldiers.
[ [228] Without injury.