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and fent with her an hundred horfes, the beft that ever were guided 

 by a rein, mounted by an hundred horfemen clothed in fattin, 

 fliining hke the fun. When flie went down to the fhore, (he 

 left the horfes behind, and ftepped forward to meet the men of 

 Lochlin s. Two golden apples were in her right hand, and orna- 

 ments on the flioulder of her gown, and the form of a tree 

 inwoven. 



Err AG ON. " Wliat tidings from the people of Fin, O maid 

 " of the curled locks ?" . 



Matd. " If thy wife has broken her marriage vow, and been 

 " guilty of any difgraceful a6Jion, you are offered the friendfhip 

 " of Fin. Thou flialt get me as an hoftage for the performance ; 

 " and if thou accept the offer, then fhalt thou obtain that friend- 

 " fhip, and an hundred horfes, the beft that ever were guided 

 " by a rein, mounted by- an hundred horfemen clothed in fattin, 

 " fhining like the fun. Thou fhalt obtain thefe, and an hundred 

 "girdles"; ficknefs cannot affed thofe whom they bind, they 

 " flop pain and torture — a grateful prefent to pregnant women. 



s Mr. Mc. Pherfon tranfmutes " the tivo golden tjpph-s" into an arrow of gold, and 

 a fparWiiig fiell ; and then adds, in conformity to his fyflem, without .my authority 

 from die original, that thefe were the figiu of Morven's peaa: 



" Mr. 



