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XLIlI. How Fin Went To The Kingdom Of The Big Men

Source.-J.

G. Campbell, The Fians (Waifs and Strays, No. iv.), pp. I75 - 92.

Parallels.- The Voyage to Brobdingnag will occur to many readers, and it is by no means impossible that, as Swift was once an Irish lad, The Voyage may have been suggested by some such tale told him in his infancy. It is not, however, a part of the earlier recorded Ossianic cycle, though over-sea giants occur as opponents of the heroes in that as well as in the earlier Ultonian cycle.