" Sir Walter Scott (_The Pirate_, Note P.) and many others
invariably say "a dwarf."
Note also J.F. Campbell (_W.H. Tales_, p. xcix): "The Highland giants
were not so big, but that their conquerors wore their clothes." Also the
dwarf in Ramsay's "Evergreen" who says that he was engendered "of
giants' kind."]
[Footnote 43: _Dean of Lismore's Book_, p. lxxvi.; _Celt. Scot._, vol.
i. p. 131; vol. iii. chap. iii.; &c.]
[Footnote 44: _Celt. Scot._ iii. 106-7.]
[Footnote 45: In this tale, the phonetic spelling _ben-ce_ shows the
unusual aspirated form _bean-shithe_. She is elsewhere spoken of as the
Lady of Innse Uaine, and her son is the hero of the tale _Gille nan
Cochla-Craicinn_.]
[Footnote 46: According to a clergyman of the seventeenth century, the
Hebrides and a part of the Western Highlands constituted "the country of
the Fians," (_Testimony of Tradition_, p. 45.)]
[Footnote 47: Miss Dempster: "The Folk-Lore of Sutherlandshire,"
Folk-Lore Journal, vol. vi. 1888, p. 174.]
[Footnote 48: _Proc. of the Soc. of Antiq. of Scot._, vol. vii. p. 294.]
[Footnote 49: _Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._, vol. vii. pp. 165 and 192.
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