The Scottish Celtic review

178 Fin Mac Coid.the words of the person from whom it was heard, without additionor suppression.The tale is particularly valuable as showing how the humanimagination runs in similar or analogous grooves. Whoever composedthe story, in all probability, never heard of Gulliver ; andthe " immortal " Swift never heard of Fin-mac-Coul going to thekingdom of Big Men. The two tales are founded on the samefjxncy, in representing their heroes as visiting men of gigantic size,compared with whom ordinary mortals are mere pigmies ;butthe incidents are so different, and cast in such entirely differentmoulds, that it becomes probable, almost to certainty'', that theyhave no connection with each other.Mak a chaidhFionn do rIgheachd nam Fear M5ra.Bha Fionn 's a chuid dhaoine ann an cala Beinn Eudainn' air cnoc,air chill gaoith' 's air eudain grc^ine, far am faiceadh iad a h-uilefear 's nach fliaiceadh duin' idir iad, 'nuair a chunnaiciad duradana' tighin o'n ;\ird'-an-iar.Shaoil leo an toisoach gur h-e diibhradhfrois a bh'ann ; ach an uair a thainig i ni 'bu dliiithe, chunnaic iadgur h-e bata 'bh'ann. Cha do leag i sool gus an d'thainig i staighdo'n chala. Bha triiiir dhaoine innt', fear ri iul 'na toiseach, fearri stiuir 'na deireadh, is fear ri beairt 'na buillsgein.Thainig iadair til", is tharraing iad a suas i, a seachd fad fhdin, ann am feurtioram, glas, far nach deanadh sgoilearan a' bhaile mhoir burdmhagaidh no fhochaid dlii.Chaidh iad an sin a suas gu lianaig bhoidhich, agus thog ancevid fliear Ian a dhuirn de bhulbbagan no morghan chlach, agusthuirt e riu, iad a bhith 'nan taigh briagha, nach robh an Eirinn ni'b'fhearr ; agus bha so deanta. Thog an dara fear leacag sgliat,agus thuirt e i a bhith 'na sgliat air mullach an taighe, nach robhan fiirinn ni 'b'fhearr ; agus bha so deanta. Rug an treas fear airbad shliseag, agus thuirt e iad a bhith 'nan giubhas 's 'nam fiodh'san taigh nach robh an Eirinn ni b'fhearr ; agus bha so deanta.Chuir so mor loghnadh air Fionn ;agus chaidh e sios far anrobh na daoine, agus dh'fhoighneachd e iad, agus freagair iad e.Dh'fhoighneachd e cia as a bha iad, no ceana 'bha iad a' dol." Is trl gaisgich sinn, a chuir righ nam Fear Mora a dh'iarraidhcomhraig air an Fheinn'." Dh'fharraid e'n sin 'd e 'n t-aobhar' The name of this hill is uniformly known in " Tales of the West Highlands"(in which it is frequently mentioned) as Beinn Eudainn, but in Irishit is called Beinn Eadair (the Hill of Howth, near Dublin).