(c)  p.  18.  "  Berserkars."  Apparently  there  was  a  time
when  these  formiilable  persons  were  merely  champion  war-
riors, a  kind  of  professional  soldiery.  In  the  "  Eaven  Song,"
an  old  Norse  lay,  the  Valkyrie  asks  the  Eaven  about  Harold
Fair  Hair's  Bearsarks.  "  Wolfcoats  they  call  them,  that  bear
bloody  targets  in  battle,  that  redden  their  spear  heads  when
they  come  into  fight,  when  they  are  at  work  together.  The
wise  king,  I  trow,  will  only  reward  men  of  high  renown  among
them  that  smite  on  the  shield."  Later,  perhaps,  the  Bear-
sarks won  their  evil  reputation,  as  ravening  maniacs  of  battle,
given  to  biting  their  shields  and  behaving  in  an  hysterical
manner.  In  such  sagas  as  that  of  Grettir  they  are  violent
bullies,  sometimes  selling  their  services.  (See  Powell  and
Vigfussen's  "  Corpus  Boreale,"  i.  257.)

(d)  p.  27.  Motto.  The  second  verse  is  not  part  of  the
original  ballad,  which  was  altered  by  Allan  Eamsay.
(e)  p.  39.  "Bolts  and  bars  in  Scotland."  There  are  still
places  so  innocent  —  in  Galloway,  at  least  —  that  doors  and
windows  may  be,  and  are,  left  open  all  night.
(/)  p.  45.  "  Deilbelicket."  This  is  the  name  of  an  old
Scotch  dish,  of  which  goose  and  gooseberries  are  component
parts.     The  recipe  occurs  in  Gait's  "Ayrshire  Legatees."

(g)  p.  46.  "  James  Guthrie."  An  account  of  this  martyr
of  the  Covenant  will  be  found  in  the  Editor's  Notes  to  "  Old
Mortality."

(h)  p.  151.     "  Lucas  Jacobson  Debes."     "  Foeroae  et  Foeroa
Eeserata.     A  description  of  the  Isles  and  inhabitants  of  Fae-
roe,  Englished  by  John  Sterpin,"  12mo,  London  1676,  Abbots-
ford  Library.
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