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And leading us makes us to stray Long winters' nights out of the way; And when we stick in mire and clay, He doth with laughter leave us. DRAYTONWe use the term Great Britain in a very limited sense, as merely inclusive of those parts of the island whose inhabitants are of Gothic origin--England and the Lowlands of Scotland.
We have already seen that the Anglo-Saxon conquerors of Britain had in their language the terms from which are derived Elf and Dwarf, and the inference is natural that their ideas respecting these beings corresponded to those of the Scandinavians and Germans. The same may be said of the Pics, who, akin to the Scandinavians, early seized the Scottish Lowlands. We therefore close our survey of the Fairy Mythology of the Gothic race with Great Britain.