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==Notes== ===Explanatory notes=== {{Notelist}} ===Citations=== {{reflist|30em|refs= <ref name="almqvist">{{citation |last=Almqvist |first=Bo |author-link=Bo Almqvist|title=Of Mermaids and Marriages. Seamus Heaney's' Maighdean Mara'and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's' an Mhaighdean Mhara'in the Light of Folk Tradition |journal=Béaloideas |volume=58 |year=1990 |page=28 |doi=10.2307/20522356 |jstor=20522356}}</ref> <ref name="bolte-polivka">{{cite book|ref={{SfnRef|Bolte|Polívka|1918}}|last1=Bolte |first1=Johannes |author1-link=Johannes Bolte |last2=Polívka |first2=Jiří |author2-link=Jiří Polívka (linguist) |chapter=193. Der Tommler |title=Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm |volume=4 |publisher=Dieterich |orig-year=1918 |year=2014 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOWnAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA416 |pages=412–413, 416|isbn=9783846013885 |language=de}}</ref> <ref name="bowen">{{citation|last=Bowen |first=Charles |author-link=<!--Charles Bowen (scholar)--> |title=Varia I. Notes on the Middle Irish Word for "Mermaid" |journal=Ériu |volume=29 |year=1978 |pages=142–148|jstor=30007770 }}</ref> <ref name="bruford1980">{{citation|last=Bruford |first=Alan |author-link=<!--Alan Bruford --> |title=Legends Long Since Localised or Tales Still Travelling ? |journal=Scottish Studies |volume=24 |year=1980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DUEbLnPOd14C&q=slough |page=53<!--43–62--> }}</ref> <ref name="mcinnes">{{citation|last=McInnes|first=John |author-link=<!--John McInnes (scholar)--> |title=Twentieth-Century Recordings of Scottish Gaelic Heroic Ballads |journal=Béaloideas |volume=54/55 |year=1986–1987 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tRfaAAAAMAAJ&q=cochull |page=118 and n17<!--101–130-->|doi=10.2307/20522283 |jstor=20522283|url-access=subscription }}</ref> <ref name="cross">{{citation|last=Cross|first=Tom Peete |author-link=Tom Peete Cross |title=The Celtic Elements in the Lays of 'Lanval' and 'Graelent' |journal=Modern Philology |volume=12 |number=10|date=April 1915|jstor=432976|page=621 (p 37), note 3|doi=10.1086/386982 |doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name="eDIL-muirgeilt">eDIL, [http://dil.ie/search?q=muirgeilt muirgeilt]</ref> <ref name="eDIL-samguba">eDIL, [http://dil.ie/search?search_in=headword&q=sam- sam- (samguba)]; [http://dil.ie/26768 guba]</ref> <ref name="eDIL-suire">eDIL, [http://dil.ie/39252 suire (2)]</ref> <ref name=hennig>{{citation|last=Hennig |first=John |author-link=John Hennig |title=The Brothers Grimm and T. C. Croker |journal=The Modern Language Review |volume=41 |number=1 |date=January 1946 |pages=46<!--44–54--> |doi=10.2307/3717492 |jstor=3717492}}</ref> <ref name="higgins">{{citation|last=Higgins|first=J. G. |author-link=<!--J. G. Higgins--> |contribution=The Sea Fairies |title=Irish Mermaids: Sirens, Temptresses and Their Symbolism in Art, Architecture and Folklore |publisher=Crow's Rock Press |year=1995 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ZrfAAAAMAAJ |page=23|isbn=9781871137156 }}</ref> <ref name="keating">{{citation|last=Keating |first=Geoffrey |author-link=Geoffrey Keating |title=Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (Book I-II) |publisher=CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork |year=2014 |url=http://celt.ucc.ie/published/G100054/index.html |at=Section 17}}; [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/T100054/text027.html 英訳]</ref> <ref name="kennedy-LFIC-p121">{{citation|last=Kennedy |first=Patrick |author-link=Patrick Kennedy (folklorist) |contribution=The Sea Fairies |title=Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts |place=London |publisher=Macmillan and Company |year=1866 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfdLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA121 |pages=121–122}}</ref> <ref name="kinahan">{{citation|last=Kinahan |first=F. |author-link=<!--Frank Kinahan--> |title=Armchair Folklore: Yeats and the Textual Sources of "Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry" |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature |volume=<!--Vol. -->83C |year=1983 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jcoTAQAAMAAJ&q=%22merrow%22 |pages=260–261<!--255–267--> |jstor=25506103}}</ref> <ref name="leavy">{{cite book|last=Leavy |first=Barbara Fass |author-link=<!--Barbara Fass Leavy --> |title=In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender |publisher=NYU Press |year=1995 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BytDXeTtHiQC&pg=PA42 |pages=42–47 |isbn=0814751008}}</ref> <ref name="macadam">{{cite journal|last=MacAdam |first= Robert |author-link=<!-- Robert MacAdam --> |title=In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender |journal=Ulster Journal of Archaeology |volume=9 (first series) |year=1861–1862 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Fo_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA298 |page=298<!--294–300--> |jstor=20608946}} Cf. illustration, {{URL|1=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Fo_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA300 |2=p. 300}}</ref> <ref name="macalister-v2-p20">{{citation|editor-last=Macalister |editor-first=R. A. S. |editor-link=R. A. S. Macalister |title=Lebor gabála Érenn: The Book of the Taking of Ireland|place=Dublin |publisher=Dublin, Published for the Irish Texts Society by the Educational Co. of Ireland |volume=Part 2 |year=1857 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/LeborGablarennTheBookOfTheTakingOfIreland-Volume21939/Lebor-Gabala-Erenn-McA-Vol2#page/n27/mode/2up|pages=20–21; 40–43; 68–71 |chapter=§112 (First Redaction), §130 (Second Redaction), §155 (Third Redaction)}}</ref> <ref name="markey">{{citation|last=Markey |first=Anne |author-link=<!--Anne Markey --> |title=The Discovery of Irish Folklore |journal=New Hibernia Review |volume=10 |number=4 |date=Winter 2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BytDXeTtHiQC&pg=PA42 |pages=26–28 (21–43) |doi=10.1353/nhr.2006.0069 |jstor=20558106|isbn=9780814751008 |s2cid=143629147 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> <ref name="morse-bertha">{{citation|last1=Morse |first1=Donald E. |author1-link=<!--Donald E. Morse--> |last2=Bertha |first2=Csilla |author2-link=<!--Csilla Bertha-->|title=More Real Than Reality: The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1991 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bgJaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA31 |page=31 |isbn=9780313266126}}</ref> <ref name="o-hogain-mermaid">{{cite book|last=Ó hÓgáin |first=Dáithí |author-link=:ga:Dáithí Ó hÓgáin |chapter=mermaids/merman |title=The lore of Ireland : an encyclopaedia of myth, legend and romance |publisher=Boydell |year=2006 |page=342}}</ref> <ref name="oclerys-glossary">{{citation|last=Miller |first=Arthur W. K. |author-link=<!--Arthur W. K. Miller--> |title=O'Clery's Irish Glossary |journal=Revue Celtique|volume=5 |year=1881–1883 |url=https://archive.org/stream/revueceltique05pari#page/40/mode/2up |pages=41, 50}} (''samhghuba'', ''súire'')</ref> <ref name="oclerys-lge">{{citation|editor1-last=Macalister |editor1-first=R. A. Stewart |editor-link=R. A. S. Macalister |editor2-last= MacNeil |editor2-first=John |editor2-link=<!--John MacNeil-->|title= Leabhar gabhála: The book of conquests of Ireland. The recension of Micheál O'Cléirigh |place=Dublin| publisher=Hodges, Figgis & company, Ltd. |year=1916 |url=https://archive.org/stream/leabhargabhlab01cluoft#page/204/mode/2up |page=205}}</ref> <ref name="rhys">{{citation|last=Rhys |first=John |author-link=John Rhys |title=Welsh Fairy Tales |journal=Y Cymmrodor |volume=V |year=1882 |pages='''92–93''' (49–143) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1MrAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA49}}</ref> <ref name=SND>{{citation|url=http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/morrough |title=Scottish National Dictionary |year=1976}}</ref> <ref name="steele">{{cite book|editor-last=Steele |editor-first=Robert |title=Medieval Lore: An Epitome of the Science, Geography, Animal and Plant Folk-lore and Myth of the Middle Age: Being Classified Gleanings from the Encyclopedia of Bartholomew Anglicus On the Properties of Things |publisher=E. Stock |year=1893 |url=https://archive.org/details/b29011152|page=[https://archive.org/details/b29011152/page/136 136]}}</ref> <ref name="tochmarc-emire">{{citation|last=Meyer |first=Kuno |author-link=Kuno Meyer |title=The Wooing of Emer |journal=Archaeological Review |volume=1 |year=1888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DrNCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA155 |page=155}}; [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G301021/ Irish Text] (CELT Corpus; Paragraph 46)</ref> <ref name="vallancey">{{citation|last=Vallancey |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Vallancey |title=Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus |volume=2 |place=Dublin |publisher=Luke White |year=1786 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=em4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA290 |page=290}}</ref> <ref name="van_hamel">{{citation|last=van Hamel |first=A. G. |author-link=A. G. van Hamel |title=On Lebor Gabála |journal=Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie |volume=10 |year=1915 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ldoYCJ_53cC&pg=PA97 |pages=136, 140, 177–178}} (van Hamel's Ba redaction = Second Redaction)</ref> <ref name="welch-sidh">{{cite book|last=Welch |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Anthony Welch |contribution=sídh |title=The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature |year=2000 |quotation=They also appear on coastlines, as mermaids (murúch, Hiberno-English merrow).}}</ref> <ref name="williams-morhuch">{{citation|last=Williams |first=Robert |author-link=<!--Robert Williams (lexicographer)--> |title=Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum |year=1865 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5OqOwppe4IYC&pg=RA1-PA122 |page=122}}</ref> <ref name="zimmermann">{{citation |last=Zimmermann |first=Georges Denis |author-link=<!--Georges Denis Zimmermann--> |title=The Irish Storyteller |publisher=Four Courts Press |year=2001 |page=268 |isbn=9781851826223 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5IKBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA268}}</ref> }}
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