Note 329:D — Chapter IX · (continued 2)
Reading edition
"Brown dwarf, that o'er the muir-land strays, Thy name to Keeldar tell."—
"The Brown Man of the Muirs, who stays Beneath the heather bell."
Scott's Minstrelsy, vol. ii. p. 360.
Walsingham, says Dr. Leyden, mentions a story of an unfortunate youth, whose brains were extracted from his skull, during his sleep, by this malicious being. P. 356.