¹ Joyce’s washerwoman in Anna Livia Plurabelle says ‘tell me the sound of the Findhorn’s name’; and the Foreword to the Ordnance Survey’s Map of Britain in the Dark Ages, North Sheet, referring to the symbol-stones of the Pictish area, through which the river Findhorn runs, says: ‘Several of these symbols, such as the mirror, the comb and the boar, had a place in the later mythology of the Celts in other regions . . . Is it not also possible that the mirror and comb which are part of the equipment of that fabulous monster, the mermaid, may be derived from the same cultural complex?’