_Source._--Henderson's _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_. See also
_Folk-Lore_.
_Parallels._--Polyphemus in the Odyssey and the Celtic parallels in
_Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. v., "Conall Yellowclaw." The same incident
occurs in one of Sindbad's voyages.
_Remarks._--Here we have another instance of the localisation of a
well-known myth. There can be little doubt that the version is
ultimately to be traced back to the Odyssey. The one-eyed giant, the
barred door, the escape through the blinded giant's legs in the skin of
a slaughtered animal, are a series of incidents that could not have
arisen independently and casually. Yet till lately the mill stood to
prove if the narrator lied, and every circumstance of local
particularity seemed to vouch for the autochthonous character of the
myth. The incident is an instructive one, and I have therefore included
it in this volume, though it is little more than an anecdote in its
present shape.