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The only son of Nudd Hael's mentioned in the pedigrees is 

 not called a saint ; but St Angus of Balquidder is evidently the 

 lay founder of the church, the Welsh king of Dumbartonshire, 

 under whom Gwynn seems to have served. There seems an 

 allusion to his church in the Welsh poems. It is quite possible 

 that the name of Gaul as known to the Romans, was the 

 word Gall, quite distinct from Gael, and now meaning 

 " stranger " in Scotch Gaelic. It seems to me to have meant 

 "person," and to form "fellow" in English, as well as gallant, 

 and callant for boy in Scotland ; also perhaps girl, if that originally 

 meant boy as well ; in which case " gal " is the correct spelling ! 



Dubhgall for the Danes may have meant "black strangers," 

 but Dougal as a personal name is certainly "black fellow." 

 Dungal, brown fellow, is one of the names which go to form 

 Donald. 



As to natural colouring, the modern Bretons, in Lower Brittany, 

 have almost universally dark brown hair, or rather, dark hair 

 that is decidedly not black. 



I only saw about four men with black hair, who may not even 

 have been natives, and about as many girls with yellow or flaxen 

 hair ; perhaps two or three young women with light brown. 

 The curious and often picturesque caps of the women, which are 

 really a sort of sun bonnets, generally hide the hair too much to 

 be becoming, but it is only the shapes worn in certain districts 

 which conceal it entirely. The Bretons are said to have a fair 

 type among them, but this must belong to Upper Brittany, and 

 is probably from Norman admixture. The French which re- 

 places the Cymric in that country is spoken with the burred R 

 which is the Danish accent, and in Northumberland must come 

 direct from Guthrum's followers. 



One thing I saw in Brittany I do not know except as a Cymric 

 custom. At the Pardon or religious festival of St Anne, near 

 Auray (in west-coast rain which would have disgraced the west 

 of Scotland) the men from a distance were wearing in their hats 

 bunches of millet, a broad-bladed grain grown about there ; it 

 was being sold, and is the mark of having made the pilgrimage. 

 I imagine the Welsh leek is the only thing of the kind to be had 

 on St David's day in early spring. The story of the battle seems 

 a clear case of an explanatory legend. 



The feathers of the Princes of Wales, on the other hand, have 

 not usually been connected with Wales at all ; but not only are 



