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FINGAL

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Scottish

Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Fionnghall, which meant "white stranger" from fionn "white, fair" and gall "stranger". This was the name of the hero in James Macpherson's epic poem 'Fingal' (1762), which he claimed to have based on early Gaelic legends about Fionn mac Cumhail.


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