Fingal of victories
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Fingal of Victories: Fingal - another name for Finn MacCool; poet James Macpherson, in The Poems of Ossian, gives him the title "Fingal of Victories" because he is frequently victorious on the battlefield
- Fingal: region of County Dublin north of the city; a barony from 1208-1628, when it became an Earldom.
- Finngaill (Irish): fair-haired foreigners; a term used to denote the Norwegian Vikings in Ireland (as opposed to the Dubgaill, the dark-haired Danes)
