Note 33 — SIR DAVID LYNDSAY.
Reading edition
The Red Etin, a giant with three heads, was the subject of a popular story mentioned in the Complaynt of Scotland. William Motherwell has a poem “The Etin of Sillarwood.” The Gyre Carlin, or huge old woman, was the gruesome Hecate, or mother-witch, of many peasant stories.