Where is Fingal from?

Meaning of the name Fingal

From Scottish Gaelic Fionnghall meaning "white stranger", derived from fionn "white, fair" and gall "stranger". This was the name of the hero in James Macpherson's 1762 epic poem Fingal [1], which he claimed to have based on early Gaelic legends about Fionn mac Cumhail.

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