Beniot said, with great erudition:
>
> The Fimir are same as the Ireland Fomori demon.

Then Martin came straight to the point and demanded:
>
> Well, that's the story of how they entered WFB, but now spill
> the beans
> about any links to celtic myths of mist giants or the Fhoi
> Moire (sp?) of
> Moorcock's second lot of Corum books...

The name and the single eye come from the Fomorians, right enough, but the
society, tails and such were my invention. The needing human women to breed
(which got me into great political-correctness trouble at GW, even though
they never bothered to change the text before publication) comes from a
beast of Orkney called a Cunal-Trow, which I think is a kind of Troll that
came in with Norse settlers in the 8th century or so, and entered Orkney
folklore from there. The whole infertility-interbreeding issue is a fairly
common theme in sub-Celtic faerie folklore generally.

I never read more than the first coupel of Corum books, but Moorcock
certainly borrowed liberally from Celtic tradition. Apart from the earlier
Elric stories, I was never a huge fan, and the whole eternal champion
concept left me cold.

Graeme

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