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extinct West Germaniclanguage formerly spoken inFingal ,Ireland .
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Examples
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Formerly, those who could recount the deeds of Fingalian times were special favourites.
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A humorous story is told of Macodrum (who was a noted humorist) having trifled a little with the translator when he applied for a sample of the old Fingalian, in the words, "Hast thou got anything of, or on, (equivalent in Gaelic to _hast thou anything to get of_) the Fingalian heroes?"
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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Fingalian story, and the English "Black Annis", figures in Irish song and legend as "The Old Woman of Beare".
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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In one of the many Fingalian stories the animal is
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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How much superior were the Fingalian heroes; they would sail and fight all day and pass round the uisquebaugh in the evening at the feast of shells, and never get fuddled and never feared anything under water or above land, and were beholden to neither Gods nor men.
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Malvina, Fingal and Ossian -- in literal confirmation of what has been stated in the text concerning them; but the only reliable account, by survey and tradition also, of the Fingalian expeditions from Morven to
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My Post was to Head a Company of _Fingalian_ Granadiers, who were plac'd in an
Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) Daniel Defoe 1696
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