Celtic Myth and Legend Poetry and Romance
by Charles Squire
INDEX
Aberffraw, marriage of Branwen at, 289.
Abergeleu, sacred well at, 415.
Achill Island, folk-tales preserved at, 233.
Achilles, the Irish, 158.
Achren, battle of, 305, 306; castle of, 320.
Acrisius, 236.
Adamnan's Life of Saint Columba, 401, 417.
Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, 11, 190.
Aebh, wife of Lêr, 142.
Aed, son of Lêr, 143.
Aedh, son of Miodhchaoin, 105.
Aeife, wife of Lêr, 142, 143, 144.
Aerfon, a title of the river Dee, 413.
Æs Sídhe, the "folk of the mounds", the gods or fairies, 137, 168.
Aganippus, king of the Franks, 382, 383.
Agriculture god of, British, 261; a Gaulish, 274.
Ailbhe, foster-daughter of Bodb the Red, 142.
Aileach, grave of Nuada at, 122, 157.
Ailill, king of Connaught, 147, 154, 164, 165, 175, 179, 200.
Ailinn, love-story of, 188, 189.
Ailioll of Arran, 142.
Ainé, queen of the fairies of South Munster, 244-246.
Ainle, one of the sons of Usnach, 192, 193, 196.
Airceltrai, the sídh of Ogma, 136, 157.
Airem, Eochaid, high king of Ireland, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 331, 332.
Airem, meaning of the word, 149, 333.
Airmid, daughter of Diancecht, 80, 81, 82, 110.
Alator, a war-god worshipped in Britain, 275.
Alaw, river in Anglesey, 294, 295.
Alba, 97, 104, 163, 178, 192, 193, 196, 382; Deirdre 's farewell to, 194-195.
Albania, a name for Alba, 382.
Ale of Goibniu, 61.
Amaethon, son of Dôn, British god of Agriculture, 261, 305, 308, 313, 316, 345; fights against Brân in the battle of Achren, 305-308; assists Kulhwch to win Olwen, 345.
Amergin, druid of the Milesians, 123-130.
Amesbury, "castle" of, 29.
Amlwch, stream of, 295.
Ana, see Anu.
Ancient Britons, who were the, 18-23.
Aneurin, a sixth-century British bard. 11, 295, 372.
Aneurin, the Book of, 11.
Anglesey, island of, 289, 294, 322, 388, 400.
Anglo-Saxon, our descent not entirely, 3.
Anguish, Anguissance, king of Ireland, 357.
Angus, Gaelic god of love and beauty, 56, 79, 80, 117, 136, 139-142, 147, 156, 157, 205, 211-214, 217, 218, 221, 240; his attributes, 56; his wooing of Caer, 140-142; cheats his father, the Dagda, 139; steals Etain from Mider, 147; helps Diarmait and Grainne, 217, 218, 221; matches his pigs against the Fenians, 213-214.
Anicetus, Sol Apollo, a Romano-British god, 275.
Animals, sacred, 406, 416, 417; sacrifices of, 406, 411, 412, 413.
Anna, sister of Arthur, 323.
Annals of the Four Masters, 204.
Annwn, the British Otherworld, 254,
273, 278-282, 303, 308, 309, 318, 319 321, 390, 391.
Annwn, the Spoiling of, a poem by Taliesin, 305, 306, 317, 366.
Anu, or Ana, a Gaelic goddess o, prosperity and abundance, 50; the "Paps of Ana", 50; still living in folklore as Aynia and Ainé, 245.
Aoibhinn, queen of the fairies of North Munster, 244.
Aoife, an Amazon defeated by Cuchulainn, 164, 176, 197.
Aphrodité, the British, 271, 388.
Apollo, the Gaelic, 62; the British, 262; a temple of, in Britain, 42, 325.
Apples, of the Garden of the Hesperides, 98, 99, 102; in the Celtic Elysium, 98, 136.
Apple-tree of Ailenn, 189.
Aquitani, 22.
Aranon, son of Milé, 123.
Arawn, king of Annwn, 279, 280, 281, 306, 308, 309, 312, 315, 329, 357, 375.
Ardan, a son of Usnach, 192, 193, 196.
Ard Chein, 93.
Arddu, Black Stone of, 305.
Arês, 52.
Arianrod, a British goddess, 261-265, 313, 317, 322, 364, 371; her place in later legend taken by Arthur's sister, 364.
Art, the "Lonely", king of Tara, 189, 202.
Artaius, Mercurius, a Gaulish god, 274.
Arthur, 6, 8, 14, 155, 202, 222, 246, 258, 259, 271, 273, 274, 276, 296, 304, 306, 311, 312-320, 322, 323, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330-343, 348, 349, 351-360, 362, 364-366, 368, 371, 374-376, 392, 407; the mythical and the historical, 313, 314; assumes the attributes of Gwydion, 316; the Spoiling of Annwn by, 319-322; becomes head of the British Pantheon, 312-313; wins Olwen for Kulhwch, 343-353; in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History, 374, 375; leads the Wild Hunt, 392.
Arthurian Legend, Studies in the, Professor Rhys's, 148, 158, 255, 257, 258, 269, 272, 274, 278, 285, 313, 314, 316, 321, 322, 323, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 358, 359, 360, 364, 367, 368, 369, 370, 383, 387, 389.
Artur, son of Nemed, 274.
Aryans, 21, 31, 32, 247; common traditions of the, 32, 176, 189; Aryan languages, 21.
Astarte, worshipped at Corbridge, 275. Astolat, 362.
Athens, 153.
Augusel, a king of Scotland, 375.
Aurelius, a British king, 325.
Avallach, see Avallon.
Avallon, a British god of the Under-world, 329, 359; Isle of, 394, and see Avilion.
Avebury, the "castle" of, 29.
Avilion, 133, 315, 329, 332, 334, 335, 390, 394.
Aynia, a fairy queen of Ulster, 245.
Babylon, 178.
Badb, a Gaelic war-goddess, 52, 53, 72, 117, 119, 245; the name often used generically, 53; description of a, 53.
"Badger in the bag", the game of, 285, 303.
Badon, battle of, 338.
Baile, love-story of, 188-189.
Bajocassus, Temple of the sun-god Belinus at, 276.
Bala lake, 265.
Balder, 33.
Balgatan, a mountain near Cong, 73.
Ballymagauran, village of, 38.
Ballymote, Book of, 10, 38, 123, 138, 229, 231.
Ballysadare, 75.
Balor, a king of the Fomors, 48-49, 50, 79, 83, 84, 90, 112, 113, 120, 233-239, 269, 324, 341, 345, 371; his evil eye, 49; kills Nuada and Macha, 112; is blinded by Lugh, 112; tales of, in modern folklore, 233-239.
Ban, king of Benwyk, 356, 360, 362.
Banba, a goddess representing Ireland, 125; an ancient name of Ireland, 126, 153.
Banshee, meaning of the word, 137.
Bardsey Island, 326.
Barrow, river, how it got its name, 62.
Barrule, South, 242.
Barry, the, 246.
Basque race, 19.
Bath, 228, 275, 276, 338, 381.
Bathurst's Roman Antiquities in Lydney Park, 254.
Battle of Achren, 305; of Badon, 338; of Camlan, 222, 315, 334, 337, 375, 376; of Clontarf, 53; of Gabhra, 222, 223, 225, 315; of Mag Rath, 52; of Moytura Northern, 107-117, 407; of Moytura Southern, 72-75; of the Trees, 123, 305-308.
Bayeux, temple of Belinus at, 276.
Bean, curious passage relating to the, 306, 307.
Becuma of the Fair Skin, 202.
Bedivere, Sir, 6.
Bedwini, Arthur's bishop, 337.
Bedwyr, a follower of Arthur, 343, 344, 349.
Belacatudor, a war-god worshipped in Britain, 275.
Beli, a British god, 120, 252, 260, 268, 295, 313, 335, 376.
Belinus, a Celtic sun-god, 276, 358, 364; as a king of Britain, 276, 384, 385.
Belisama, the Latin name of the Ribble, 413.
Beltaine, the Gaelic May-day, 41, 65, 287, 406, 408, 409, 410.
Berber race, 19.
Beth, an Iberian god, 64.
Bettws-y-coed, 7.
Beuno, Saint, sacrifices of cattle to, 413.
Bilé, father of the Gaelic gods and men, 51, 65, 120, 121, 122, 252.
Billingsgate, origin of name, 385.
Birds, of Rhiannon, the, 273, 294, 296; Dechtiré and her maidens changed into, 160.
Black Book of Caermarthen, the, 11, 255, 311, 312, 335.
Bladud, mythical founder of Bath, 381.
Blathnat, daughter of Mider, 55, 179.
Bliant, Castle, 358.
Blodeuwedd, wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes 265, 266, 268.
Blood-fines among the Celts, 30; blood-fine paid for Cian, 94-97.
Boann, wife of the Dagda, 55, 139, 141.
Boar, wild, of Bengulben, 221; the Boar Trwyth, 347-353.
Bodb the Red, son of the Dagda, 60, 133, 140, 141-145, 157, 205, 208; is made king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 140; his swineherd, 164; marries his daughter Sadb to Finn, 208.
Bonfires in Celtic ritual, 409-412.
Bordeaux, Sir Huon of, 7.
Boreadæ, 42.
Bors, king of Gaul, 360.
Boyne, river, 55, 56, 129, 136, 137, 158, 210, 213, 230.
Brahmans, 32.
Bran, son of Febal, an Irish king, 134, 135, 224.
Bran, Finn's favourite hound, 213.
Brân, British god of the Underworld, 258, 271-272, 276, 289-294, 296, 306, 308, 313, 328, 329, 331, 338. 356, 357, 360, 364, 366, 384, 386, 387, 389, 394; fights the battle of Achren, 306; becomes the "Wonderful Head", 296; in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History, 384, 385; in the Morte Darthur, 356, 357; introduces Christianity into Britain, 386.
Brandegoris, King, 356.
Brandel, Brandiles, Sir, 356.
Branwen, British goddess of love, 271, 289-294, 387.
Brazil, 133.
Brea, ford of, Finn killed at the, 222.
Breasal's Island, 133.
Brécilien, Forest of, 362.
Bregon, 121.
Brennius, a mythical British king, 5, 276, 384, 385.
Brennus, 385.
Bress, son of Elathan, a Fomor, 50, 78-80, 82, 83, 90, 108-111, 115-116, 269; his beauty, 50; marries Brigit, and is made king over the Tuatha Dé Danann, 78; is forced to abdicate, 83; makes war on the Tuatha Dé Danaan, 83; is defeated and captured, 115-116.
Brian, son of Tuirenn, 90, 91, 92, 94, 99-102, 103, 105, 106.
Briareus, 326.
"Bridge of the Cliff", the, 163.
Brigantes, a North British tribe, 277.
Brigantia, a British Minerva, 277.
Brigindo, a Gaulish goddess, 277.
Brigit, Gaelic goddess of fire, poetry, and the hearth, 56, 78, 109, 110, 228, 269, 277, 387; is married to Bress, 78; is canonized as Saint Bridget, 228, 387.
Bri Leith, the sídh of Mider, 136, 148, 152, 332.
Brindled ox, the, 320.
Britain, ancient names of, 292, 323.
British Goblins, Mr. Wirt Sikes', 389, 393, 415.
Britons, ancient, who were the, 18-23.
Britonum, Historia. See Historia, Geoffrey, Nennius.
Brittany, 24.
Briun, son of Bethar, 113.
Brude, king of the Picts, 401.
Brugh-na-boyne, 136, 139, 160, 213, 214.
Buarainech, father of Balor, 48.
Buinne, the Ruthless Red, son of Fergus, 193, 196, 197.
Bull, the Brown, of Cualgne, 164, 165, 168, 175; the White-horned, of Connaught, 165, 175.
Bwbachod, 393.
Cadbury, the supposed site of Camelot, 335.
Cader Idris, 305.
Caemhoc, Saint, 146.
Caer, daughter of Etal Ambuel, 141.
Caer Badus, 381.
Caer Bannawg, 367.
Caer Colvin, 275.
Caer Golud, 320.
Caer Llyr, 270.
Caer London, 376.
Caer Myrddin, 324.
Caer Ochren, 320.
Caer Rigor, 319.
Caer Sarrlog, 386.
Caer Sidi, 319, 321, 322, 368.
Caer Vedwyd, 319.
Caer Wydyr, 320.
Caesar, Julius, 5, 8, 18, 22, 23, 25, 27, 30, 35, 38, 119, 204, 376, 399, 412, 417.
Cairbré, son of Cormac, 206, 222, 315.
Cairn of Octriallach, 110.
Cairpré, son of Ogma, bard of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 58, 82, 83, 87, 139.
Calais, 383.
Calatin the wizard, 171, 172; daughters of Calatin, 178-181.
Caledonians, 22.
Camlan, battle of, 222, 315, 334, 337, 375, 376.
Camulodunum, the Roman name of Colchester, 276.
Camulus, a Gaulish god of war and the sky, 51, 204, 275, 323.
Caoilte, a Fenian hero, 63, 146, 208, 212, 217, 222, 227, 246.
Caractacus, Caratacus, 271, 386, 387.
Caradawc of the Strong Arms, son of Brân, 271, 291, 295, 338, 386, 389.
Carmarthen, 324.
Carnac, 114.
Carnarvon, 310.
Carrowmore, 114.
Cassibellawn, Cassivelaunus, 376.
"Cassiopeia's Chair", 252.
Castell y Moch, 310.
Castle Bliant, 358.
Castle of Gwydion, 253.
Castle Hacket, 244.
Castle of Riches, 367.
"Castles", Celtic, 29.
Caswallawn, son of Bali, 295.
Cath Godeu. See the "Battle of the Trees".
Cathbad, druid of Emain Macha, 161, 162, 174, 178, 181, 190, 198, 200.
Cathubodva, a Gaulish war-goddess, 276.
Cauldrons in Celtic mythology; the Dagda's, 54, 71, 366; of Ogyrvran the Giant, 366; of Diwrnach the Gael, 346, 349; cauldron given by Brân to Matholwch, 290, 293, 366; cauldron stolen from Mider by Cuchulainn, 176, 366; cauldron kept in Annwn by the chief of Hades, 273, 319, 366; the legend of the Holy Grail founded upon Celtic myths of a cauldron of fertility and inspiration, 365-370.
Celtæ, 22.
Celtic mythical literature the forerunner of mediæval romance, 184
Celtic strain in modern Englishmen, 3.
Celts, the, 19, 20, 21, 25-44, 70, 119, 121, 124, 136, 138, 261, 262, 278, 283, 329, 404, 407, 412.
Cemmes, a parish in Pembrokeshire, 394.
Cenn Cruaich, 41.
Cermait, i.e. "Honey-mouth", a title of Ogma, 57.
Cethé, son of Diancecht, 62, 90.
Cethlenn, wife of Balor, 90.
"Chain, Lugh's", 62; "chiefs", 93.
Champion of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 59, 276; Champions of the Red Branch, see Red Branch; "The Champion's Prophecy", 201.
Chariots, war, of the Celts, 25, 27, 28.
Charon, 403.
Chess, Mider's game with Eochaid Airem, 149; Ossian's game with Finn, 220.
Children of Dôn, Nudd, and Llyr, 252. Christianity, introduced into Britain by Brân, 386, 387; conquers Druidism, 400, 401; adopts harmless heathen cults, 416, 417.
Cian, son of Diancecht, 62, 63, 78, 84, 90-94, 106, 235-237, 239, 269, 345, 371.
Ciaran, Saint, 10.
Cichol the Footless, a Fomor, 66.
Cilgwri, the Ousel of, 349.
Clann Baoisgne, 209, 217, 222.
Clan Chattan, 415.
Clann Morna, 209, 211, 218, 232.
Clann Ronan, 218.
Clas Myrddin, an old name for Britain, 323.
Claudius, Roman emperor, 387.
Cliodna, fairy queen of Munster, 244.
Clontarf, battle of, 53.
Clûd, goddess of the river Clyde, 284, 285.
Cluricanes, 248.
Cnoc Miodhchaoin, 97.
Cnucha, battle of, 209.
Coblynau, 393.
Cocidius, a war-god worshipped by a Dacian colony in Cumberland, 275.
Coed Helen, 310.
Coel, a mythical king of Britain, 275, 323.
Coir Anmann, the "Choice of Names", an old Irish tract, 50, 54, 61, 245, 270.
Colchester, 276.
"Cole, Old King", 276.
Columba, Saint, 12, 240, 401, 417.
Comes Britanniæ, 313.
Comes Littoris Saxonici, 314.
Comyn, Michael, a Gaelic poet, 223.
Conairé the Great, high king of Ireland, 152, 157.
Conall the Victorious, 163, 177, 183, 192, 193, 197, 198.
Conan, a Fenian hero, 209, 218.
Conann, son of Febar, a king of the Fomors, 67.
Conchobar, king of Ulster, 29, 147, 154-156, 158, 160-162, 166-168, 173, 174, 179, 185, 190-192, 193, 195-198, 200, 201, 204, 227; his treachery towards the sons of Usnach, 192-200; his tragical death, 155.
Condates, a war-god worshipped in Britain, 275.
Conlaoch, son of Cuchulainn, 177, 178.
Conn the Hundred Fighter, 201, 202.
Conn, son of Lêr, 143.
Conn, son of Miodhchaoin, 105.
Connaught, 73, 75, 76, 165, 168.
Connla, son of Conn the Hundred Fighter, 202.
Contemporary Review, the, 241.
Contrary Head, 242.
Conway, river, 262.
Cooking-places of the Fenians, 206.
Cooking-spits of the women of Fianchuivé, 96; at Tara, 98.
Cooley, see Cualgne.
Coranians, a mythical tribe of dwarfs, 377-379.
Corb, an Iberian god, 64.
Corbridge, 275.
Core, son of Miodhchaoin, 105.
Corca-Duibhne, 70.
Corca-Oidce, 70.
Cordeilla, daughter of Leir, in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History, 381-383.
Cordelia, daughter of Shakespeare's King Lear, 259, 381.
Coritiacus, a war-god worshipped in Britain, 275.
Cormac, "the Magnificent", 201, 202, 203, 206, 215, 222, 315.
Cornwall, 3, 23, 294, 296, 327, 334, 353, 382, 384.
Coronation Stone, the, 71.
Corrib, see Lough Corrib.
Corspitium, see Corbridge.
Corwenna, mother of Brennius and Belinus, 385.
Count of Britain, 313; of the Saxon Shore, 314.
Cow, Balor's Gray, 235, 236, 237, 240; Mider's three cows, 57, 176.
Cow, Book of the Dun, 10, 12, 14, 37, 156, 164, 175, 184, 202, 227.
Credné, the bronze-worker of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 85, 86, 109.
Crete, 153.
Creudylad, daughter of the British sky-god Lludd, 256, 258, 259, 332, 348, 381, 407.
Criminal Resolutions of Britain, the Three, 334.
Crom Croich, 40.
Cromm Cruaich, 38, 39, 41, 154, 402.
"Croppies' Grave", the, at Tara, 72.
Cruind, the river, 165.
Cualgne, a province of Ulster, 264, 165 175.
Cuan, head of the Munster Fenians, 218.
Cuchulainn, chief hero of the Ultonians, 10, 11, 14, 27, 154, 155, 156, 158-188, 192, 193, 202, 204, 210, 217, 223, 227, 274, 366; is the son of Lugh, 159-160; obvious solar character of, 158-159; how he obtained his name, 160-161; fights in the Táin Bó Chuailgné, 164-175; his wooing of Emer, 184-186; his raid upon the Other World, 175-176; his death, 183; is raised from the dead by Saint Patrick, 227.
Culann, chief smith of the Ultonians, 161; "Culann's Hound", 161, 166.
"Culture-King", 153.
Cumhal, father of Finn, 204, 209, 210, 275.
Cunedda, a North British king, 373. Cunobelinus, king of Britain, 387. Curoi, king of Munster, 147, 154. 179.
Cuthbert, Saint, bulls sacrificed to, 413.
Cwm Cawlwyd, the Owl of, 349.
Cwn Annwn, the "Hounds of Hell" 391, 392.
Cwy, 320.
Cymbeline, Shakespeare's, 387.
Dagda, the, Gaelic god of the Earth, 54, 78, 79, 87, 98, 107-109, 116, 117, 122, 132, 135, 136, 138-141, 156, 157, 211, 213, 228, 230, 240, 243, 269, 346, 366; his dress, arms, and harp, 54; his porridge-feast, 108; is cheated by his son Angus, 139; resigns the kingship of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 140; his last appearance, 157.
Dairé of Cualgne, owner of the Brown Bull, 165.
Dalân, druid of Eochaid Airem, 392.
Danes, the, 230.
Danu, the mother of the Gaelic gods, the same as Anu, q.v., 44, 50, 51, 74 245, 252, 407.
Dart, river, 414.
Dartmoor, 392.
Deaf Valley, the, 180.
Dechtiré, mother of Cuchulainn, 156, 159, 160, 181.
Dé Danann, see Tuatha Dé Danann.
Dee, river, 413.
Deimne, the first name of Finn, 210.
Deirdre, 190-100; Deirdre's Farewell to Alba, 194-195; Deirdre's Lament over the Sons of Usnach, 299-200.
Demetia, Roman province of, 273, 278.
Demetrius, an early traveller in Britain, 326.
"Demon of the air", Aeifé changed into a, 145.
Derivla, a sacred well in the island of Inniskea, 415.
Desmond, fourth Earl of, nicknamed "the Magician", 245.
"Destiny, laying a", a Celtic custom, 262-265, 340. Devon, 312, 392.
Devwy, the dales of, 320.
Dialogue of the Elders, the, 205, 222, 404; Dialogues of Patrick and Ossian, 226-227.
Diancecht, the Gaelic god of medicine, 61, 62, 78, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 90, 110, 141, 232, 269; makes a silver hand for Nuada, 78; kills his son Miach, 81-82; presides over the "Spring of Health", 110; prescriptions of Diancecht, 232.
Diarmait O'Duibhne, the Fenian Adonis, 209, 212, 215-221, 315.
Dinadan, Sir, 328.
Dinas Dinllev, 264.
Dingwall, Registers of the Presbytery of, 412.
Dinnsenchus, 38, 40, 132, 154.
Dio Cassius, 387.
Diodorus Siculus, 41, 42, 325.
Dionysus, rites of, 410.
Diwrnach the Gael, the cauldron of, 346, 349.
Dobhar, king of Sicily, 96, 98, 202, 103.
Doctrine of the transmigration of souls, 36, 37.
Domnann, Fir, i.e. men of Domnu.
See Fir Domnann.
Domnu, a goddess, mother of the Fomors, 48, 70, 112; meaning of the name, 48; gods of Domnu, 48, 70; men of Domnu, 70.
Dôn, the British equivalent of the Gaelic Danu, 44, 252, 260, 268, 269, 273, 295, 308, 310, 316; euhemerized into a king of Dublin, 372-373.
Donn, son of Milé, 126-131, 246.
"Donn's House", 246.
Dormarth, the hound of Gwyn son of Nudd, 257.
Dragon, Red, of Britain, 378; White, of the Saxons, 378.
"Dragon-mouth", a lake called, 141.
Dream of Rhonabwy, the, 260, 312, 337, 338.
Drogheda, 137.
Drowes, river, 110.
Drudwyn, the whelp of Greid the son of Eri, 347.
Druidism, the religion of the Celts, 35, 43; possibly non-Aryan in origin, 36; in Gaul, 34; derived from Britain, 35; suppressed by the Romans, 399, 400.
Druids, 18, 33-37, 84, 111, 115, 151, 179, 180, 182, 188, 202, 399-401, 411, 412, 417; origin of the name, 33; in Gaul, 34; in Britain, 35; human sacrifices of the druids, 37, 412; the druids of Brude, king of the Picts, 401.
Drumcain, an old name for Tara, 126.
Duke of the Britains, the, 313.
Dul-dauna, the, 237.
Dun Cow, Book of the. See Cow.
Dundalk, 177.
Dundealgan, 177, 181, 188, 189.
Dux Britanniarum. See Duke of the Britain.
Dwynwen, Saint, 388.
Dyfan, Saint, 386.
Dyfed, or Demetia, a province of South Wales, 273, 278, 279, 281, 282, 286, 298-301, 303, 304, 309, 310, 394.
Dylan, a British god, 261, 262, 322, 335, 360, 364, 371.
Eagle, of Gwern Abwy, 350; Lleu changed into an, 266-268.
Earl Gerald, 245.
Easal, king of the Golden Pillars, 96, 103.
Eber, son of Milé, 129-131, 146, 153.
Eber Scot, 120.
Eboracum, Roman name of York, 275.
Edeyrn, son of Nudd, 260.
Edinburgh, the Advocates Library at, 11.
Eel, the Morrígú takes the shape of an, 169; transformation of the rival swineherds into eels, 165.
Egypt, 120.
Eigen, the first female saint in Britain, 386.
Eildon Hills, Arthur living beneath the, 335.
Elaine, 362.
Elathan, a king of the Fomors, 49, 50, 78, 83, 90, 116, 269.
Elayne, 358.
Elberich, 392.
Elders, Dialogue of the. See Dialogue.
Elen Lwyddawg, wife of Myrddin, 323, 362.
Eleutherius, Pope, 386.
Ellyllon, the Welsh elves, 393.
Elton's Origins of English History, 6, 8, 25, 26, 70, 228, 327, 413.
Elves, 393.
Elysium, Celtic. See Other World, Celtic.
Entails Macha, the capital of ancient Ulster, 28, 29, 158, 160, 161, 162, 164, 173, 174, 179, 180, 183, 188, 192, 194, 196, 200, 201, 204.
Emer, wife of Cuchulainn, 162, 164, 177, 184-188.
Emer, the Wooing of, an old Irish saga, 28, 29, 37, 184.
Emperor, a title given in Welsh legend to Arthur, 314, 338.
Emrys, a title of Myrddin, 324, 329, 360, 369.
Englishmen, Celtic strain in, 3.
"Entertaining of the Noble Head", the, 296.
Eochaid, son of Erc, king of the Fir Bolgs, 69, 73, 74, 75.
Eochaid Airem, see Airem.
Eochaid O'Flynn, an Irish poet, 231.
Erc, king of Tara, 179, 182, 183.
Eremon, son of Mild, and first king of Ireland, 40, 129, 130, 131, 132, 146, 153, 154.
Erin, 97, 98, 99, 102, 104, 126, 193, 225, 231; meaning of the word, 126.
Eriu, a goddess representing Ireland, 125, 126, 128, 129.
Eros, the Gaelic, 56, 140. See Angus.
Essyllt, wife of March, or Mark. See Iseult.
Etain, wife of Mider, 57, 139, 147-152, 154, 224, 331-333.
Etair, a vassal of King Conchobar, 147.
Etal Ambuel, father of Caer, 141.
Etan, wife of Ogma, 62, 87, 239.
Ethnea, a name of Ethniu in modern folklore, 238.
Ethniu, daughter of Balor, 62, 79, 84, 90, 269, 371.
Ethnology in Folklore, Mr. G. L. Gomme's, 35, 69, 412, 413, 414, 416.
Etirun, "an idol of the Britons", 294.
Etive, Loch, 193.
Etruscans, the, 20; Etruscan mythology in modern Italian folklore, 403.
Ettard, 358.
Ettarre, Pelleas and, Tennyson's idyll of, 358.
Euhemerism of Gaelic gods, 227-230; of British gods, 372-389.
Euskarian race, 19.
Evelake, King, 359.
Evnissyen, son of Penardun, 290, 292, 293.
Failinis, the hound of the king of Ioruaidhé, 96, 97, 104.
Fairie Queene, Spenser 's, 7, 389.
Fairies, the, 4, 137, 242-248, 389-393, 403, 404, 409, 418; the old gods are remembered as "fairies", 243-248, 389-393; two varieties of fairy in folk-lore, 403; Irish and Welsh fairies identical in nature, 404; king of the Irish fairies, 136; king of the Welsh fairies, 392; size of the fairies, 404; fairy money, 377; fairy food, 391; the "fairy hills", 135-139, 394.
Fal, the stone of. See Stone of Destiny.
"Falcon of May", 369; "Falcon of Summer", 369.
Falias, a city of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 71, 72.
Fand, wife of Manannán son of Lêr, 186-188, 202.
Faraday, Miss, her translation of the Táin Bó Chuailgné, 164.
Fata Morgana, 395.
Fate of the Children of Lêr, 142-146; of the Sons of Tuirenn, 90-105; of the Sons of Usnach, 190-200.
Fea, a war-goddess, wife of Nuada, 52.
"Feast of Age", Manannán's, 61, 98, 143.
Feast of Lugh, see Lugnassad.
Feast of St. John, 409.
Fec's Pool, on the Boyne, 210.
Fedlimid, vassal to King Conchobar, 190.
Fenians, the, 11, 17, 155, 201, 203-209, 211-215, 217-219, 220-223, 225, 226, 314, 315; real or mythical, 203-205; origin of, 206; duties of, 206; accomplishments of, 207; chief heroes of, 207-209; destruction of, at the battle of Gabhra, 222; stories of, 209-226; the Fenian sagas possibly non-Aryan, 70.
Fenius Farsa, 120.
Ferdiad, a warrior slain by Cuchulainn, 172, 173, 184.
Fergus, son of Finn, 208.
Fergus, son of Roy, an Ulster hero, 14, 166, 167, 170, 171, 175, 192-196, 198, 200.
Fergusson, Dr. James, 76, 114, 137, 138.
Festivals, Celtic solar or agricultural, 405-412.
Ffordd Elen, 324.
Fiacha, son of Conchobar, 197, 198.
Fiachadh, king of Ireland, 206.
Fiachra, son of Lêr, 143.
Fianchuivé, submarine island of, 97, 104.
Fianna Eirinn, see Fenians.
Figol, son of Mamos, druid of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 90.
Findabair, daughter of Medb, 168.
Findias, a city of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 71, 72.
Finn mac Coul (Cumhail), 4, 11, 16, 37, 146, 155, 201, 203, 204, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210-218, 220-222, 224, 226, 246, 254, 274, 314, 315; his upbringing and boy-feats, 209-210; reorganizes the Fenians, 211; is killed at the Ford of Brea, 222; is reborn as Mongan, an Ulster chief, 37; is he historical or mythical, 204; parallels between Finn and Arthur, 314-315.
Finn mac Gorman, compiler of the Book of Leinster, 10.
Finn the Seer, 210.
Finola, daughter of Lêr, 143.
Finvarra, king of the Irish fairies, 243, 244, 405.
Fiona Macleod, Miss, 241.
Fionn, see Finn.
Fionnbharr, the sídh of Meadha assigned to, 136; his appearance in the Fenian sagas, 212; becomes fairy king of Ireland, 243.
Fir Bolgs, an Iberian tribe, 68-70, 72-78, 114, 125, 229, 230, 407.
Fir Domnann, an Iberian tribe, 68-70, 76, 172.
Fir Gaillion, an Iberian tribe, 68-70, 76.
Fish, sacred, 416.
Fly, Etain changed into a, 147; Lugh takes the form of a, 159; a sacred, 416.
Folklore, Ethnology in. See Ethnology.
Folk-tales, Irish, 233-240; Welsh, 371.
Fomors, Gaelic deities of Death, Darkness, and the Sea, 11, 48-50, 67, 70, 76, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 98, 107-117, 120, 122, 157, 205, 225, 229, 230, 252, 269, 274, 327, 406; meaning of the name, 48; their war with the Tuatha Dé Danann, 107-117; are the Lochlannach in the Fenian sagas, 205.
Forgall the Wily, father of Emer, 162, 163, 164, 184.
Fotla, a goddess representing Ireland, 125; an ancient name of Ireland, 126.
"Four Ancient Books of Wales", the, 11, 15. See also Skene.
"Four Branches of the Mabinogi", the, 14, 15, 251, 278, 289, 312, 355.
"Four-cornered castle", the, 366.
Frazer's Golden Bough, 33.
"Frivolous Battles of Britain, The Three", 334.
Frogs, sacred, 416.
Fury, Great, and Little Fury, two swords of Manannán, 60, 217.
Gabhra, battle of, 222, 223, 225, 315.
Gabius, a Roman consul, 385.
Gabriel Hounds, the, 392.
Gae bolg, Cuchulainn's spear, 170, 193, 178.
Gaels, 68, 69, 70, 71, 76, 93, 108, 119, 124, 149, 183, 203, 204, 230, 357.
Gaiar, son of Manannán, 202.
Gaillion, Fir. See Fir Gaillion.
Galan-mai, Welsh spring festival, 408.
Gan Ceanach, 247.
Garden of the Hesperides, the, 95, 98, 99.
Gargantua, Rabelais', 386.
Gaul, 22, 274, 276, 383, 384, 385.
Gavidjeen Go, 235.
Gawain, Sir, 360, 363, 364, 369, 375.
Geasa, taboos among the Irish Celts, 177, 195, 216.
Genii locorum, 43.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 9, 121, 251, 254, 259, 276, 323, 324, 330, 336, 372, 373-376, 381, 384.
George's Hill, Saint, 29.
Gildas, a British writer, 400.
"Glamour, the Realm of", an old name for Dyfed, 279.
Glamour put on Cuchulainn by Cath-bad, 178; by the daughters of Calatin, 179, 180; put on the sons of Usnach, 198; on Arianrod, 264, 265; on Dyfed, 298.
Glass Castle, of the Fomors, 67; a synonym for the other world, 320, 367.
Glenn Faisi, 130.
Glora, Isle of, 144, 145, 146.
Gobhan Saer, the, 232, 235, 240.
Goibniu, Gaelic god of smithcraft, 61, 84, 86, 98, 109, 110, 141, 231, 232, 238, 239, 261, 371; forges the weapons of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 61, log; kills Ruadan, 110; his ale, 61; survives in tradition as the Gobhan Saer, q.v.; as a character in folk-tale, 232-240. See Gavida and Gavidjeen Go. Goidel, a mythical ancestor of the Irish, 120.
Goidels, the, 21, 22, 23, 24, 35.
Golden bough, the mistletoe the, 33.
Golden Pillars, king of the. See Easal.
Gomme, Mr. G. L., 20, 35, 69, 412, 413, 414, 416.
Gonorilla, daughter of Leir, 381, 382.
Gore, 357. See Gower.
Goreu, Arthur's cousin, 317, 338.
Gorias, a city of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 71, 72, 97-
Govannan son of Dôn, British god of Smithcraft, 261, 313, 316, 345; kills his nephew Dylan, 261; assists Kulhwch, 345.
Gower regarded as part of the other world, 272, 356, 357, 373.
Grail, the Holy, 2, 7, 273, 357-359, 365-370.
Graves of the Warriors, the Verses of the, 272, 311, 334.
Gray of Macha, Cuchulainn's horse, 174, 181, 182, 183.
Greece, 1, 20, 68, 99, 100, 101, 155.
Greek mythology, ancient, 1, 2, 4; modern, 403.
"Green Meadows of Enchantment", the, 394.
Greid, the son of Ed, 347, 350,
Gresholm Island, 294, 356, 394.
Grianainech, the "sunny-faced", an epithet of Ogma, 59.
Grianan Aileach, grave of Nuada at. See Aileach.
Guanius, Gwyn as a mythical king of the Huns, 375.
Guest, Lady Charlotte, 253, 255, 268, 278, 289, 295, 298, 308, 317, 337, 339, 340, 348. 350, 369, 377.
Guinevere, Arthur's queen, 315, 334, 357, 359. 365, 375, 407.
Gunvasius, king of the Orkneys, 376.
Gurgiunt Brabtruc, king of Britain, 385.
Guyon, Sir, in Spenser 's Fairie Queene, 7, 389.
Gwalchaved, 369.
Gwalchmei, 323, 330, 334, 335, 338, 343, 360, 364, 368, 369, 375.
Gwales, island of, 294, 296, 356.
Gwarthegyd, son of Kaw, 337.
Gwawl, son of Clod, Pwyll's rival for Rhiannon, 284, 285, 303, 362, 380.
Gweddw, owner of a magic horse, 347.
Gweir, a form of the name Gwydion, q.v., 319, 321, 322.
Gwenbaus, Sir, 359.
Gwern, son of Matholwch and Branwen, 291, 292, 293.
Gwinas, Sir, 359.
Gwlgawd Gododin, the drinking-horn of, 346.
Gwragedd Annwn, 393.
Gwrhyr, a companion of Arthur, 343, 349, 350, 351.
Gwri of the Golden Hair, 287.
Gwyar, wife of Lludd, 323, 338, 369.
Gwyddneu Garanhir, his dialogue with Gwyn, 255-258; his magic basket, 346.
Gwyddolwyn Gorr, the magic bottles of, 346.
Gwydion son of Dôn, the British Mercury, 260-268, 305, 306, 308-311, 316, 317, 322, 327, 330, 335, 358, 360, 364, 371, 372, 373, 377; druid of the gods, 260; father of the sun-god, 261; fights the" Battle of the Trees", 306; is the British equivalent of the Teutonic Woden, 260; his place taken in later myth by Arthur, 316.
Gwyl Awst, the Welsh August festival, 409.
Gwyllion, 393.
Gwyn son of Nudd, British god of the Other World, 7, 254-259, 272, 313, 315, 329. 332, 348, 359. 365, 371, 372, 376, 389-393, 405, 407; attributes of, 255; his dialogue with Gwyddneu Garanhir, 255-258; contends with Gwyn for Lludd's daughter Creudylad, 259; is made warder of Hades, 254-255; prominent in the Arthur legend, 359; becomes king of the Welsh fairies, 392; his interview with Saint Collen, 389-391.
Gwynas, Sir, 359.
Gwyngelli, a companion of Arthur, 352.
Gwynhwyvar, 315, 226, 331-333, 334, 364. See Guinevere.
Gwynn Mygddwn, the horse of Gweddw, 347.
Gwynwas, a form of the name Gwyn, q.v., 332, 359.
Gwyrd Gwent, father of one of the three Gwynhwyvars, 331.
Gwyrthur, son of Greidawl, contends with Gwyn for Creudylad, 258, 259, 348, 407; father of one of the three Gwynhwyvars, 331.
Hacket, Castle, 244.
Hades, the Celtic. See Other World, Celtic.
Hades, the Greek god, 152, 260.
"Hades, Head of", a name given to Pwyll, 278, 282.
Hallowe'en, 40, 153, 407, 410.
Hamitic languages, 19.
"Happy Plain", the, 133, 135, 186. See Mag Mell.
Hare held sacred by the Ancient Britons, 417.
Harp of the Dagda, 54, 346; of Angus, 56; of Teirtu, 346.
Havgan, a king of Annwn, 279, 281.
Hawthorn, chief of Giants, father of Olwen, 340, 341, 343-345, 349, 353.
Heifer, a black-maned, called "Ocean", 80, 117, 240; the Morrígú takes the shape of a, 169-170.
Hengist, 325.
Henuinus, Duke of Cornwall, 382, 383.
Hephæstus, the Gaelic, 61, 63, 233.
Heré, 263.
Hereford, 299.
Hergest, the Red Book of, 11, 258, 260, 312, 328, 336, 369.
Herimon, 40. See Eremon.
"Hero-light", Cuchulainn's, 177, 183.
"Hero's salmon-leap", Cuchulainn's, 163.
Hesiod, 65.
Hesperides, garden of the. See Garden.
Hesus, a Gaulish god, 52.
Hevyedd the Ancient, father of Rhiannon, 283, 285.
Hi Dorchaide, 70.
Hibbert Lectures (for 1886) on Celtic Heathendom, Professor Rhys's, 41, 43, 48, 51, 54, 57, 59, 90, 120, 205, 238, 253, 254, 258, 262, 264, 268, 271, 277, 282, 284, 307, 313, 318, 324, 325, 331, 377, 408.
Historia Britonum of Nennius, 9, 336; of Geoffrey of Monmouth, 9, 251, 323, 324, 336, 372. 373, 374, 375, 376, 381, 384, 386.
Hittites, the, 20.
Holy Families of Britain, the Three Chief, 386.
Holy Grail, the. See Grail.
Homeric and Celtic civilization compared, 25, 29.
Hoodie-crow, 52, 53, 169, 271.
Horse of Manannán mac Lir, 60, 88, 98; of Gweddw, 347; of Gwyn son of Nudd, 255, 256, 348.
"Hound of Culann", the, 161, 166; hound of Lugh, 63; of the king of Ioruaidhé, 104; hounds of Finn mac Coul, 213; hounds of Celtic myth, 225, 280, 391, 392.
Hull, Miss Eleanor, her Cuchullin Saga, 155, 156, 159, 184, 190, 199, 227.
Human sacrifices of the Druids, 37, 38; to Cromm Cruaich, 38, 39, 40, 400; symbolical, 405, 410, 411.
Huon of Bordeaux, Sir, 7.
Huxley, Professor, 19.
Hy-Breasail, 133.
Iberians, the, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. 35, 68, 69, 70, 76, 230, 248, 278; their physique, 19; language, 19; original home, 19; state of culture, 20; gods, 43. 44, 64.
Iddawc, the Agitator of Britain, 337, 338.
Ilbhreach, son of Manannán, 136, 140, 211, 222.
Illann the Fair, son of Fergus mac Roy, 193, 196-198.
"Illusion, the Land of", an old name for Dyfed, 279.
Indech, son of Domnu, a king of the Fomors, 48, 70, 83, 90, 108, 112.
Inniskea, the Lonely Crane of, 146; stone worship in, 415.
Invasions, the Book of, 121.
Ioldanach, the "Master of All Arts", a title of Lugh, 63, 85, 237, 239.
Iolo Morganwg, bardic name of Mr. Edward Williams, 372.
Iolo MSS., the, 269, 270, 372, 373, 387, 388, 389.
Iona, Adamnan, Abbot of, 401.
Ireland, old names of, 125, 126, 150. See also Iweridd.
Iseult, wife of King Mark, 327, 338,
"Island of the Mighty", a bardic name for Britain, 292.
Islands, sacred, 326.
Ith, 121, 122; Ith's Plain, 66, 122.
Iuchar, son of Tuirenn, 90-106.
Iucharba, son of Tuirenn, 90-106.
Iweridd, i.e. "Ireland", wife of the British sea-god Llyr, 258, 270, 271.
Janus, 383.
Javelin, Red, one of Manannán's spears, 60, 217.
John, Feast of Saint, 245, 407, 411.
Jones, the Rev. Edward, on apparitions, 391.
Joseph of Arimathea, 358, 359, 366.
Jubainville, M. H. d'Arbois de, 25, 34, 37, 48, 54, 67, 68, 72, 77, 78, 107, 120, 124, 128, 132, 158, 188, 202.
Judgment of Amergin, the, 127.
Julius Caesar, see Caesar.
Kacmwri, the servant of Arthur, 352, 353.
Kaerlud, 376.
Kai, 326, 327, 338, 343, 348, 349, 350. 351.
Karitia, see Calais.
"Keening" invented, 110.
Kelli Wic, 334.
Keltic Researches, Mr. Nicholson's, 3
Kenmare, river, 121.
Kicva, wife of Pryderi, 289-301.
Kildare, shrine of St. Bridget at, 228.
Killaraus, Mount, 324.
"Kingly Castle", see Caer Rigor.
Kirwans of Castle Hacket, the, 244.
Knights, King Arthur's, 6, 7, 8, 155, 251, 274, 358, 371.
Knockainy, 245.
Knockma, fairy hill of, 136, 243, 244.
Knockthierna, 247.
Kulhwch, 340, 341, 343, 344. 345, 347. 353.
Kulhwch and Olwen, the tale of, 258, 259, 260, 313, 321. 327, 339, 340-353, 369, 407.
Kyndellig, 343.
Labhra, Mider's leech, 213.
Labraid of the Quick Hand on Sword, 202.
Lady of the Lake, 361.
Laeg, Cuchulainn's charioteer, 169, 181, 182, 186.
Laegaire the Battle-winner, 163.
Lakes, twelve chief, of Ireland, 88.
Lamias, 403.
Lammas, 407.
Land of Illusion, 279; of Happiness, 119, 133; of the Living, 133, 335; of Promise, 133, 217, 337; of Summer, 119, 329; of the Young, 133, 225.
Laon, 277.
Larminie, Mr. William, 233.
Launcelot, Sir, 7, 328, 333, 358, 359, 362, 365.
Lear, King, Shakespeare's, 5, 7, 259, 270, 381.
Lecan, the Book of, 10, 38, 123, 229; the Yellow Book of, 10, 164.
Leinster, Mount, 140, 211, 212.
Leinster, the Book of, 10, 38, 55, 56, 121, 132, 139, 155, 156, 157, 190, 199, 204, 229.
Leir, Geoffrey of Monmouth's King, 381-383,
Leodegrance, father of Guinevere, 357.
Leprechaun, 247, 248, 393, 403.
Lêr, the Gaelic sea-god, 60, 140, 142-144, 146, 205, 211, 212, 222, 252, 269; his rebellion against Bodb the Red, 140; their reconciliation, 142; the fate of the children of, 142-146; is killed by the Fenian hero Caoilté, 146, 222.
Levarcham, 196.
Leyden, 277.
Lia Fáil, see Stone of Destiny.
Lismore, the Book of, 10.
Lia Lluanys, the Manx August festival, 409.
Llacheu, son of Arthur, 258, 326. Llandwynwyn, the church of Dwynwyn (Branwen), in Anglesey, 388.
Lleminawg, 319.
Lleu (Llew) Llaw Gyffes, the British sun-god, 261-268, 276, 305, 306, 322, 323, 325, 330, 335, 360, 364, 369, 370: his birth, 261; and naming, 263; takes part in the Battle of the Trees, 306; is changed into an eagle, 266; his place taken in later myth by Gwalchmei, 323; and in the Arthurian legend by Sir Gawain, 360.
Llevelys, king of France, 378.
Lloegyr (Loegria), Saxon Britain, 258, 299, 300, 384.
Lludd Llaw Ereint, the British Zeus, 252, 253, 254, 259, 312, 315, 323, 329, 332, 350, 359, 364, 375-381, 407; his wife Gwyar, 323; puts an end to the "Three Plagues of Britain", 377-380; founds London, 376; appears in the Morte Darthur as King Lot of Orkney, 359.
Llwyd, son of Kilcoed, avenges Gwawl, son of Clúd, 303, 304.
Llwyr, son of Llwyrion, the magic vessel of, 346.
Llyn Llyw, the salmon of, 350.
Llyr, the British sea-god, 252, 259, 269, 270, 271, 273, 289, 290, 304, 313, 316, 338, 381, 383, 386; possibly borrowed from the Gaels, 270; becomes the "King Leir" of Geoffrey of Monmouth, 381; and the "King Lear" of Shakespeare, 270, 381; founds a family of saints, 386; his tomb of temple at Leicester, 383.
Llywarch Hen, a sixth-century British poet, 11.
Loch, a warrior slain by Cuchulainn, 169-170.
Lochlann (Lochlin), 97, 205, 372; Lochlannoch, the, 205, 211.
Londres, 376.
Lot or Loth, king of Orkney, 359, 364, 375.
Loucetius, a war-god worshipped in Britain, 275.
Lough Corrib, its Shores and Islands, Sir William Wilde's, 76.
Lough Gur, 246.
Lucan, the Roman poet, 52.
Luchtainé, the carpenter of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 61, 84, 86, 1159.
Lud, king of Britain, 5, 7, 376-381.
Ludesgata, Ludgate, 5, 254, 376.
Lugaid, son of Curoi, 179, 182, 183.
Lugh Lamhfada, the Gaelic sun-god, 62-63, 84-90, 93-97, 103, 105, 106, 111-113, 115-117, 136, 139, 156, 157, 160, 170, 201, 230, 233, 238-240, 262, 276, 325, 339, 344, 345, 370, 371; his spear, 63, 71, 97; his hound, 63, 97; his rod-sling and chain, 62; his first appearance at Tara, 84; gains the title of Ioldanach, 85; avenges his father's murder upon the sons of Tuirenn, 94-106; leads the Tuatha Dé Danann against the Fomors, 111; prophecies to Conn the Hundred Fighter, 201.
Lugnassad, "Lugh's Commemoration", 277, 409.
Lugudunum, "town of Lugus", 277, 409.
Lugus, the Gaulish sun-god, 42, 276, 409.
Lydney, temple of Nodens at, 254; monograph upon it, 254.
Mab, Queen, 246.
Mabinogi, the Four Branches of the, 14, 15, 355.
Mabinogion, 12, 14, 16, 356, 372, 377, 403, 407. See also Guest, Lady Charlotte.
Mabon, a British sun-god, 276, 328, 330, 335, 338, 347, 349-352, 387.
Macaulay, 22.
Mac Cecht, a king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 122, 125, 126, 130.
Mac Cuill, a king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 122, 125, 126, 130.
Mac Gee, Thomas D'Arcy, 232.
Mac Greiné, a king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 122, 125, 126, 130.
Mac Moineanta, a king of the Irish fairies, 242.
Mac Nia, an old Irish poet, 138.
Mac Oc, "Son of the Young", a title of Angus, 56, 139.
MacPherson's Ossian, 203.
Mac Samthainn, 238.
Macha, a war-goddess of the Gaels, 52, 72, 112; meaning of her name, 52; "Macha's acorn-crop", 53; is killed by Balor, 112.
Macleod, Miss Fiona, 241.
Maelmuiri, scribe of the Book of the Dun Cow, 10.
Maelon, 388.
Maenor Alun, 310; Maenor Penarth 310.
Maen Tyriawc, the grave of Pryderi, 311.
Maglaunus, Duke of Albania, 382, 383.
Mag Mell, the "Happy Plain", a name for the Celtic Elysium, 133, 135.
Mag Mon, the "Plain of Sports", a name for the Celtic Elysium, 134.
Mag Slecht, human sacrifices at, 38-40, 132, 154.
Mag Tuireadh, see Moytura.
Magog, 229.
Malory, Sir Thomas, 323, 328, 330, 333, 354-357, 359-364, 367, 368.
Malvasius, king of Iceland, 376.
Man, Isle of, 23, 24, 57, 60, 175, 241, 261, 272, 273, 408, 409.
Manannán son of Lêr, a Gaelic god, 60-61, 89, 98, 129, 134, 136, 140, 143, 157, 186, 188, 199, 202, 203, 205, 217, 224, 233, 235-237, 239, 240-242, 270, 371, 405; his armour, 60, 88; weapons, 60, 217; horse, 60, 89, 98; mantle, 61, 129, 188, 217, 221; pigs, 61, 98; his "Feast of Age", 61, 143; lord of the Celtic Paradise, 134; his wife Fand in
love with Cuchulainn, 186-188; his friendship with Cormac, king of Ireland, 203; his message to Saint Columba, 240-241; his connection with the Isle of Man, 60, 241-242.
Manawyddan son of Llyr, his British analogue, 270, 271, 273, 289, 290, 293, 294, 296, 298-304, 313, 315, 317, 321, 338, 352, 373; his attributes, 270-2711 accompanies Brân to Ireland, 289-294; marries Rhiannon, 298; defeats the magic of Llwyd, son of Kilcoed, 301-304; constructs the bone-prison of Oeth and Anoeth, 270; helps Arthur in the chase of Twrch Trwyth, 352.
Maponos, a Gallo-British sun-god, 276, 328.
March, a British god of the Under World, 316, 327, 329, 335, 338.
"Master of All Arts", see Ioldanach.
Mâth, a British god, brother to Dôn, 260, 265, 266, 268, 308, 310, 322, 329, 360, 361, 364; meaning of his name, 260; teaches magic to Gwydion, 260; rules from Caer Dathyl, 308; compared with Merlin, 360, 361, 362.
Matholwch, king of Ireland, 289-293.
Mâthonwy, father of Mâth, 260, 308.
Matière de Bretagne, the, 363, 365.
Maypole, 408.
Meadha, the sídh of, 136, 212, 243.
Meath, 179.
Medb, queen of Connaught, 147, 154, 164-168, 170, 171, 172, 175, 178, 179, 183, 200, 246; makes war on Ulster to get the Brown Bull of Cualgne, 165-166; becomes a fairy queen, 246; is perhaps the original of "Queen Mab", 246.
Mediterranean race, 19; Mediterranean Race, The, Prof. Sergi's, 20.
Medrawt, 315, 323, 332, 333, 334, 337, 360, 364
Meleaus, or Melias, de Lile, Sir, 359.
Melga, king of the Picts, 375.
Meliagaunce, or Meliagraunce, Sir, 359, 365, 407.
Melwas, 329, 332, 359, 365, 407.
Mercurius Artaius, a Gallo-Roman god, .274, 313.
Merlin, 324, 325, 339, 360, 361, 364. See Myrddin.
Mesgegra, king of Leinster, 147, 154.
Meyer, Dr. Kuno, 38, 134, 154, 184, 190.
Miach, son of Diancecht, 62, 80-82, 232.
Midas, the British, 328.
Mider, Gaelic god of the Under World, 56, 57, 117, 136, 140, 142, 147-151, 154, 157, 175, 179, 205, 211-213, 224, 243, 331-333; rebels against Bodb the Red, 140; gambles with Eochaid Airem for possession of Etain, 149; is besieged in his sídh, and helped by the Fenians, 211-213.
Midsummer Eve, 242.
Milé, the ancestor of the Gaels, 122, 123, 126, 129, 130, 132, 146, 153.
Milesians, the, 76, 125-127, 129, 145, 153, 229, 230, 243.
"Milky Way", the, 62, 253, 268.
Minos, 153.
Mithras, a Persian sun-god worshipped at York, 275.
Mochdrev, 310.
Mochnant, 310.
Modron, wife of Urien and mother of Mabon, 328, 338.
Mona, see Anglesey.
Mongan, an Ulster prince, a reincarnation of Finn mac Coul, 37.
Monmouth, Geoffrey of. See Geoffrey.
Morc, son of Dela, a king of the Fomors, 67, 327.
Mordred, Sir, 315, 334, 360, 364, 374, 375.
Morgawse, sister to Arthur, 323.
Morrígú, the, Gaelic goddess of war, 52, 53, 72, 87, 98, 107, 113, 117, 139, 157, 168-170, 323; description of, 52; her dealings with Cuchulainn on the Táin Bó Chuailgné, 168-170.
Morte Darthur, Sir Thomas Malory's, 7, 272, 276, 323, 328, 334, 354, 362. 364-368, 372, 407.
"Mound, Lord of the", 41, 403.
Mountains of Ireland, the twelve chief, 87.
Mourie, "Saint", 413.
Mouse, Manawyddan and the, 301-304.
Moytura, Northern, Battle of, 11, 107-117, 157, 407; Southern, Battle of, 72-77, 114.
Munster, 69, 264, 218, 244, 245.
Murias, a city of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 71, 72.
Mur y Castell, Lieu's palace near Bala Lake, 265, 268.
Myrddin, a British Zeus, 323-325, 329, 360, 362, 369; gave its first name to Britain, 323; his wife Elen, 323; his town Carmarthen, 324; appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth and in the Morte Darthur as Merlin, q.v.
Myrddin, a sixth-century British bard, 11.
Mythology, importance of, 1; Greek, 1, 2, 4, 403; Scandinavian, 3; Celtic, its influence on English literature, 6, 7; on mediæval chivalric romance, 184.
Name, ancient British superstitions with regard to, 263.
Names, Choice of, The. See Coir Anmann.
Names, early of Britain, 292, 323; of Ireland, 126, 150, 151.
Nant Call, 310.
Nant y Llew, 267.
Naoise, son of Usnach, 191-193, 195-198.
Narberth, 279, 281, 282, 283, 288, 298, 300.
Navan Fort, 158.
Neath, Vale of, 255, 335, 392.
Nedd, river, 405.
Neevougi, a stone worshipped at Inniskea, 415.
Nemed, 67-69, 274; the race of, 229, 230, 327, 406.
Nemetona, a war-goddess worshipped at Bath, 275, 276.
Nemon, a Gaelic war-goddess, wife of Nuada, 52, 276.
Nennius, his History of the Britons, 9, 336.
Nereids, 403.
Nêt, an Iberian god, 64
Nia, the Plain of, 73.
Niamh of the Golden Hair, daughter of Manannán, 223-225.
Nicholson's Keltic Researches, 3.
Niebelungenlied, 393.
Nissyen, son of Penardun, 290, 293.
Niul, 120.
Noah, descent of the Gaelic gods and men from, 329.
Nodens, a temple to, at Lydney, 253.
"Northern Crown", constellation of the, 252.
Nos galan-gaeof, the Welsh winter festival, 408.
Nuada of the Silver Hand, a Gaelic Zeus, 51, 52, 74, 75, 78, 80, 81, 83-86, 93, 94, 105, 122, 157, 230, 253, 276, 323; his sword, 51, 71; his wives, 52; his hand cut off in battle, 75; a silver hand made for him by Diancecht, 78; his own hand renewed by Miach and Airmid, 81; his death at the hands of Balor, 112; his tomb at Grianan Aileach, 122, 157.
Nudd, British god, 252, 253, 254, 313; to be identified with Lludd, q.v.
Nutt, Mr. Alfred, 12, 37, 38, 134, 154, 158, 164, 318, 348.
Nynniaw, son of Beli, 268, 269, 313.
Oak, held sacred by the Druids, 33.
"Ocean", a black-maned heifer called, 80, 240.
Ochall Ochne, king of the Sídhe of Connaught, 164.
Ochren, battle of, 305; Caer, 320, see Achren.
Octriallach, son of Indech, 110; the "Cairn of Octriallach", 110.
O'Curry, Eugene, 37, 56, 63, 72, 78, 89, 93, 111, 113, 137, 138, 146, 151, 152, 155, 188, 201, 204.
Odin, 260.
O'Donaghue, the, 247.
O'Donovan, 238.
Oeth and Anoeth, the Bone-prison of, 270, 271, 317, 373.
O'Flynn, Eochaid, an old Irish poet, 231.
Ogam, writings in, 58, 93, 151, 189.
Ogma, Gaelic god of Literature and Eloquence, 57-60, 79, 80, 82, 84, 85, 112, x,6, 117, 122, 136, 139, 157, 276; his wife and children, 57; his epithets of "Cermait" and "Grianainech", 57, 59; his great strength, 59; kills Indech in the battle of Moytura, 112; inventor of the ogam alphabet, 58.
Ogmios, a Gaulish god, 276.
O'Grady, Standish Hayes, Mr., 28, 159, 201, 203, 205, 207, 213, 215, 222.
Ogyrvran, a British god of the Under World, father of Gwynhwyvar, 329-331, 357, 366.
O'Herlebys, wooden idol of the, 413.
Old Plain, the, 66.
Olwen, 340, 341, 343, 345, 353.
Onagh, queen of the Irish fairies, 243, 244.
Origins of English History, Mr. Elton's, 6, 8, 25, 26, 70, 228, 327, 413.
Orkneys, 386; King Lot of Orkney, 359.
Oscar, son of Ossian, 208, 212, 217, 222, 246, 315.
Ossian, MacPherson's, 203.
Ossian, son of Finn mac Coul, 11, 208, 212, 214, 215, 217, 220, 223-227, 246, 318, 337.
"Ossianic ballads", 205, 208, 213; Ossianic Society, see Transactions.
Other World, the Celtic, 65, 68, 71, 98, 119, 121, 133-136, 150, 151, 175, 176, 201, 202, 203, 224, 252, 255, 270, 271, 272, 273, 278, 279, 281, 305, 307, 316, 317, 318-322, 329, 334, 336, 366, 387, 389, 395; different names of, 133, 318-320; descriptions of, 136, 150-151, 224; variously imagined as upon the sea, 202, 224, 272, 394; under the sea, 305; under the earth, 135-136; upon earth, 271, 272, 273, 278, 279; original abode of men, 119; visited by Cuchulainn, 175-176, 186; Conn, 201; Connla, 202, Ossian, 224; Pwyll, 281; Gwydion, 305; Arthur, 317-320. See also Annwn, Avilion, Happy Plain, Mag Mell, Mag Mon, Land of Happiness, of the Living, of Promise, of Summer, of the Young.
Ousel of Cilgwri, 349.
Ovid's Metamorphoses, 393.
Owain, son of Urien, 328, 330; Sir Owain, 363.
Owl, of Cwm Cawlwyd, 349; Blodeuwedd changed into an, 268.
Ox, the brindled, 320, 321; oxen, magic, 345.
Oxford, 379.
Paradise, the Celtic. See Other World, Celtic.
Partholon, 65-68, 386; race of, 229, 230, 406.
Patrick, Saint, 8, 40, 41, 132, 145, 222, 225, 226, 227, 242, 401, 402.
Paul's Cathedral, Saint, 254.
Pausanias's Description of Greece, 36.
Pedigree of the gods, 229; of Finn mac Coul, 204.
Pedryvan, Caer, 319, 356, 367.
Peel Castle, 242.
Peibaw, son of Beli, 268, 269, 313.
Pelasgoi, 20.
Peleur, King, 368.
Pellean, King, 358.
Pelleas, Sir, 358, 368; Pelleas and Ettarre, Tennyson's Idyll of, 358.
Pellinore, King, 362.
Pembroke, County Guardian, the, 394.
Pen Annwn, the "Head of Hades", a title of Pwyll, 278, 282.
Penardun, daughter rd. Beli and wife of Llyr, 269, 270, 289, 290, 293.
Pendragon, meaning of the word, 330.
Pennant, 409.
Percivale, Sir, 359, 363, 368, 369.
Perilous glens, the, 163.
Persephoné, the British, 259, 260.
Persia, 274; Pisear, king of, 96, 97, 101-103.
Pigs, in the Celtic Other World, 136; of Manannán, 61, 63; of Easal, king of the Golden Pillars, 96, 97, 103; of Pryderi, 308, 316, 327; of March, 316, 3.27; of Angus, 214; Cian changed into a pig, 91.
Pigskin of King Tuis, the, 96, 99, 100.
Pillars, king of the Golden. See Easal.
Pisear, king of Persia, 96, 97, 101-103.
Pixies, 393.
Plain of Ill Luck, 163; of the Sea, 72; of Adoration, 38; the Old, 66.
Plutarch, 326.
Pluto, the Gaelic, 57; the Cambrian, 260.
Poetry, the Gaelic goddess of, 56; cauldron of inspiration and, 365-370.
Policy of the Christian Church towards objects of pagan worship, 417.
Pookas, 247, 248, 393, 403, 405.
Porsena, a Roman consul, 385.
Poseidon, 52, 260; the Gaelic, 60; the British, 269.
Posidonius, 26.
Prophecy of Badb, 117-118; of Eriu, 125-126; of the seeress to Queen Medb, 166; of Lugh to Conn the Hundred-Fighter, 201-202; of Cathbad concerning Cuchulainn, 161, concerning Deirdre, 190-191.
Pryderi, son of Pwyll and Rhiannon, 273, 286-288, 289, 294, 295, 298-301, 303-305, 308, 309-311, 313, 315, 316, 319, 321, 327, 335, 358, 364, 366, 368, 377, 407; is stolen at birth, 286; meaning of his name, 288; accompanies Brân to Ireland, 289-294; is spirited away by Llwyd and recovered by Manawyddan, 300-304; receives a present of pigs from Annwn, 308; is killed by Gwydion, 311; appears in Arthurian legend, 358.
Prydwen, Arthur's ship, 319, 320, 352.
Puck, 393.
Puffin Island, 322.
Pursuit of Diarmait and Grainne, The, 215-221.
Pwccas, 393.
Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed and "Head of Annwn", 273, 274, 278-288, 298, 303, 304, 305, 308, 316, 319, 329, 357-358, 366, 367, 380; changes shapes with Arawn, king of Annwn, 281; his wooing of Rhiannon, 282-286; is owner of a magic cauldron in Hades 321; and keeper of the Holy Grail in the Morte Darthur, 357-358.
Pwynt Maen Dulan, 262.
Queen Guinevere, 315, 334, 357, 359, 365, 375, 407.
"Queen Mab", 246.
Queen of the Irish fairies, 243, 244; of the fairies of Munster, 244; of the fairies of North Munster, 244; of the fairies of South Munster, 244.
Queene, The Fairie, Spenser's, 7
Quicken-tree, the magic, 219.
Rathconrath, 69.
"Realm of Glamour, The", a name for Dyfed, 279.
Re-birth of Cuchulainn, 37; of Finn mac Coul, 37.
Red Book of Hergest, see Hergest.
Red Branch Champions of Ulster, the, 4, 147, 157, 167, 183, 191, 192, 204, 227, 314
Red Branch House, the, 29, 196, 197.
Red Dragon of Britain, the, 378.
Redynvre, the stag of, 349.
Regan, daughter of King Leir, 381, 382.
Retaliator, the, the sword of Manannán mac Lir, 60, 198.
Revelry, the Castle of, 319, 366.
Revolving Castle, the, 319, 366.
Revue Celtique, 40, 53, 78, 107, 117. 142, 158, 184, 190, 201, 241, 246.
Rhiannon, a British goddess, 273, 282-288, 298, 300, 301, 303, 304, 358, 361, 362, 407; her three magic birds, 273, 294, 296; her name afterwards corrupted into Nimue and Vivien, 358, 361.
Rhinnon Rhin Barnawd, the magic bottles of, 346.
Rhonabwy, 336, 337, 338; The Dream of Rhonabwy, 312, 337, 338.
Rhyd y Groes, a ford on the Severn, 337.
Rhys, Professor, 22, 23, 35, 41, 44, 64, 68, 158, 205, 254, 256, 262, 282, 289, 307, 313, 316, 318, 319, 324, 331, 335, 352, 363, 370, 395, 404, 413, 414. See also Arthurian Legend and Hibbert Lectures.
Ri, Roi, an Iberian god, 64.
Riches, the Castle of, 367.
Rience, King, 357.
Rigor, Caer, 319.
Rigisamos, a war-god worshipped in Britain, 275.
Ritual, remains of Celtic, 405-412.
Rivers, the twelve chief, of Ireland, 88.
Rivers, the worship of, 413, 414.
Rodrubân, the sídh of Lugh, 136.
Romans, the, 23, 24, 25, 373, 385, 386, 399, 413.
Ronan, Clann, 218.
Round Table, King Arthur's, 6, 314.
"Round Towers", the, attributed to Goibniu, 233.
Ruadan, son of Bress and Brigit, 109-110.
Rude Stone Monuments, Fergusson's, 76, 114, 137, 138.
Ryons, King, 357.
Sacred animals, 406, 416, 417; islands, 326; fish, 416; frogs, 416; stones, 406, 415, 417; trees, 406, 415; wells, 414-416.
Sacrifices of animals, 406, 412; human, 18, 37-40, 399; symbolical human sacrifices, 405, 410, 411.
Sadb, daughter of Bodb the Red, and mother of Ossian, 208.
St. Catherine's Hill, 29; St. George's Hill, 29.
St. Gall MS., the, 232.
Saints, transformation of Celtic gods into, 6, 228, 229, 372, 386, 389. Salisbury Plain, 325.
Salmon of Knowledge, the, 55, 210; of Llyn Llyw, 350.
Samhain, the Celtic winter festival, 40, 42, 67, 107, 108, 286, 406, 407, 408, 410, 411.
Samhanach, 408.
Sarn Elen, 324.
Sarrlog, 386; Caer Sarrlog, 386.
Satires, magical, 83, 87, 172, 182. Scathach the Amazon, 163, 164, 172, 173, 176.
Scêné, the river, 121.
Scot, Eber, a mythical ancestor of the Gaels, 120.
Scôta, 120.
Scotti, 357.
Sea, Celtic ideas regarding the, 48, 261, 270.
Second Battle of Moytura, The, the Harleian MS. called, 50, 54, 72, 78,107.
Seint Greal, the, 322, 326, 368.
Senchan Torpeist, 14.
Sen Mag, see Old Plain.
Serapis worshipped at York, 275.
Setanta, original name of Cuchulainn, 160, 161.
Severn, the river, 254, 337, 350, 352, 353.
Sgeolan, one of Finn's hounds, 213.
"Shadowy Town, or City", 175, 366.
Shakespeare, 5, 259, 270, 381, 393, 408.
Shannon, the river, 88, 165, 292.
"Shape-shifting", 37.
Sharvan the Surly, 219.
Shield, Conchobar's magic, 197.
Shony, a Hebridean sea-god, 410.
Shouts on a hill, the three, 94, 97, 105, 106.
Sídh Airceltrai, 136; Bodb, 136; Eas Aedha Ruaidh, 136; Fionnachaidh, 136, 140, 142, 146, 222; Meadha, 136, 243; Rodrubân, 136.
Sídhe, "fairy mounds", 135, 136, 139, 181.
Sídhe, The, the Gaelic gods, or fairies, 136, 223, 244, 246.
Sidi, Caer, 319, 321, 322, 368.
Silures, tribe of the, 22.
Silurian race, the, 19.
Silver Hand, Nuada's, 51, 78, 81, 253; Lludd's 253.
Sinann, goddess of the Shannon, 56.
Skene, Dr. W. F., 71, 123, 256, 258 311, 312, 316, 317, 319, 328, 334. Skye, Isle of, 163.
Slecht, Mag. See Mag Slecht.
Slieve Bloom, 209; Slieve Fuad, 136; Slieve Mish, 130.
Smallpox, goddess of the, 413.
Sol Apollo Anicetus, a sun-god worshipped at Bath, 275.
Solar festivals of the Celts, 41, 405-412.
Solinus, Caius Julius, 228.
Somerset, 329.
"Son of the Young", see Mac Oc.
Sore, the river, 383.
Sorrowful Stories of Erin, The Three, 106.
Spain, 22, 121; used as an euphemism for the Celtic Other World, 68, 120, 121, 230, 386.
Spear of Lugh, 62, 97; of Pisear, king of Persia, 96, 97, 101, 103.
"Spearman with the Long Shaft", 369.
Spey, the river, 414.
"Splendid Mane", the horse of Manannán mac Lir, 60, 88, 98.
Spoiling of Annwn, The, a poem of Taliesin, 306, 317-321, 366.
"Spring of Health", the, 110.
Sreng, a warrior of the Fir Bolgs, 75.
Stag of Redynvre, the, 349.
Stokes, Dr. Whitley, 40, 50, 72, 78, 107, 152, 190, 203, 417.
Stone, Black, of Arddhu, 305; Coronation, 71; of Destiny, 72; of Kineely, 239.
Stones, worship of, 406, 415. Stonehenge, 42, 324, 325.
Strachey, Sir Edward, 356.
Study of Celtic Literature, Matthew Arnold's, 3, 16, 356.
Sualtam, the mortal father of Cuchulainn, 159, 160, 173, 174.
Suir, the river, 165.
Sul, a goddess worshipped at Bath, 228, 275.
"Summer, the Land of", i.e. the Celtic Other World, 119, 329.
Sun, worship of the, 41, 42; Cuchulainn a personification of the, 158-159.
Swans, Caer and Angus take the forms of, 141-142; the children of Lêr changed into, 143; Mider and Etain become, 151.
Sword, of Manannán, 60, 198; of Nuada, 51; of Gwrnach the Giant, 346, 348.
Swinburne, 6.
Swineherds, the rival, 164-165.
Table Round, the, 6, 354, 371.
Taboos, Celtic. See Destiny, Geasa.
Tailtiu, the Gaelic gods defeated by the Milesians at, 130.
Táin Bó Chuailgné, 10, 14, 28, 159, 164, 175.
Taliesin, 11, 123, 124, 261, 271, 273, 294, 296, 306, 317, 318, 320, 321, 328, 356, 366, 367.
Taliesin, the Book of, 11, 123, 261, 271, 273, 306, 317, 318, 321, 328.
Tallacht, burial-place of Partholon's people, 66.
Tara, 29, 72, 84, 93, 98, 105, 125, 126, 129, 147, 153, 189, 190, 216, 230.
Taran, 294.
Taranis, 294.
Tathlum, a sling-stone, 112, 113.
Tawë, a river in South Wales, sacred to Gwyn ap Nudd, 257, 279, 392, 405.
Tegla's well, Saint, 415.
Teirnyon Twryf Vliant, 287, 288, 358, 407.
Teirtu, the harp of, 346.
Telltown, see Tailtiu.
Temple of Nodens at Lydney, 253-254; St. Paul's cathedral occupying the site of a, 254; sacrifices of cattle on the site of a, 413; ancient British temples still standing in the sixth century, 400.
Tennyson, 6, 133, 260, 274, 297, 312, 354, 355, 358, 361, 362.
"Terrace cultivation", 20.
"Terrestrial gods and goddesses", 156.
"Terrible Broom, The", name of the banner of Oscar's battalion, 209.
Tethra, a king of the Fomors, 83, 90.
Teutates, a god of the Gauls, 51, 52.
Thames, the river, 254.
Theseus, 153.
Thirteen Treasures of Britain, the, 313, 326, 339, 340.
Three Birds of Rhiannon, the, 273, 294, 296.
Three Chief Holy Families of Britain, 386.
Three Counselling Knights of Arthur, 312.
Three Cranes of Denial and Churlishness, 57.
Three Criminal Resolutions of Britain, 334.
Three Etains, 331.
Three Frivolous Battles of Britain, 334.
Three Generous Heroes of Britain, 253.
Three Gwynhwyvars, 333.
Three Paramount Prisoners of Britain, 350-351.
Three Plagues of Britain, 253, 377-380.
Three shouts on a hill, 94, 97, 105, 106.
Three Sorrowful Stories of Erin, 106.
Three War-knights of Arthur, 312.
Three Wicked Uncoverings of Britain, 297.
Tiberius, the Emperor, 400.
Tigernmas, a mythical Irish king, 153-154.
Tighernach, an old Irish chronicler, 204.
Tir nam beo, see Land of the Living.
Tir nan og, see Land of the Young.
Tir Tairngiré, see Land of Promise.
Titania, 393.
Tomb of the Dagda, 138.
Tombs of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 138-139.
Torpeist, Senchan. See Senchan.
Toutates, a war-god worshipped in Britain, 275.
Tower Hill, Erin's head buried at, 294, 296, 331.
Transactions of the Ossianic Society, 124, 127, 128, 201, 203, 211, 213, 215, 223, 226.
Transmigration of souls, 36; of the swineherds, 164-165.
Treasures of Britain, the Thirteen, 313, 326, 339, 340.
Trees, the Battle of the, 123, 305-308.
Trees, worship of, 406.
Triads, 11, 253, 273, 331, 334, 350, 351.
Trim, 175.
Trinity Well, the source of the Boyne, 55.
Trinovantum, i.e. New Troy, a mythic name of London, 376, 385.
Tristrem, Sir, 6, 327, 363-Trouveres, the, 363.
Troy, 374.
Tuatha Dé Danann, the gods of the ancient Gaels, 11, 17, 48, 50, 51, 58, 59, 60, 65, 70-79, 82-86, 91, 95, 97, 104, 108-112, 114, 115, 117, 123, 125, 126, 129, 132, 136-138, 140, 141, 145, 153, 154, 156, 157, 205, 211, 214, 217, 219, 222, 225, 228, 229-231, 243, 246, 252, 269, 276, 312, 330, 393, 403, 404, 406, 410; their arrival in Ireland, 71, 72; their battle with the Fomors, 108-117; are conquered by the Milesians, 130; retire into underground palaces, 135, 136; and become the fairies of Irish belief, 137.
Tuirenn, son of Ogma, 57, 90, 106.
"Tuirenn, the Fate of the Sons of", 90-106.
Tuis, king of Greece, 96, 98, 102.
"Turning Castle", 322.
Twr Branwen, 289.
Twrch Trwyth, the hunting of, 347-353.
Tylwyth Teg, the Welsh fairies, 255.
Tynwald Hill, 412.
Tyrian Hercules worshipped at Oxbridge, 275.
Uaman, sídh of, 141.
Uaran Garad, spring of, 165.
Uffern, the "Cold Place", a name for Annwn, 319.
Uisnech, the hill of, 69, 324.
Ulster, 29, 57, 64, 69, 76, 158, 164, 165, 166, 171, 174, 175, 189, 183, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 217, 245,
"Undry", the name of the Dagda's cauldron, 54, 366.
Unius, the river, 107.
Unsenn, the river, 112.
Urddawl Ben, see Venerable Head.
Urien, an underworld king, 328, 329, 357, 376; Uriens, Urience, King, in the Morte Darthur, 357; Urianus, King, in Geoffrey of Monmouth' History, 376.
Uther Ben, the "Wonderful Head", a name for Brân, 296, 330, 356.
Uther Pendragon, Arthur's father, 330, 356.
Val des Fées, in the forest of Brécilien, 361.
Varro, 26.
Vedwyd, Caer, 319.
"Venerable Head, The", 296.
Verses of the Graves of the Warriors, The, 272, 311, 334.
"Victor, son of Scorcher". See Gwyrthur, son of Greidawl.
Vita Columbæ, Adamnan's, 401, 417.
Wales, the Four Ancient Books of, 11, 15. See Skene.
Walgan, 375.
Wall, Roman, 25, 273, 274, 400.
War-chariots, 27; Cuchulainn's, 28.
Warrefield, 242.
"Water-dress", Brian's, 104.
Waves, the Four, of Britain, 261.
"Wave-sweeper", Manannán's boat, 60, 98, 104.
Weapons of the Celts, 27.
Wells, worship of, 414, 415; holy, 414.
Westminster, 407; Westminster Abbey, 71.
White Dragon of the Saxons, 378.
White-horned Bull of Connaught, 165, 175.
White Mount in London, see Tower Hill.
White-tusk, king of the Boars, 346, 349.
Wild Huntsman, the, 255.
Wilde, Sir William, his Lough Corrib, 76; Lady Wilde's Ancient Legends of Ireland, 243, 409.
Williams, Mr. Edward. See Iolo Morganwg.
Wish Hounds, the 392.
Woden, 260.
Wolf, the Morrígú takes the shape of a, 170.
Women, position of, among the Celts, 30.
"Wonderful Head", the, 296, 330.
"Wood of the Two Tents", the, 216.
Wren, Lleu and the, 263; a bird of augury among the druids, 417.
Wydyr, Caer, 320.
Wye, the river, 352.
Yeats', Mr., The Wanderings of Oisin, 223.
Yell, or Yeth, Hounds, the, 392.
Yellow Book of Lecan, the, 10, 164.
"Yellow Shaft", one of Manannán's spears, 60, 217.
Ynys Avallon, 329. See Avilion, Glastonbury.
Ynys Branwen, 295.
Ynys Wair, 322. See Lundy Island.
York, 275.
Young, Land of the, 133, 225; Son of the, see Mac Oc.
Yspaddaden Penkawr, see Hawthorn, Chief of Giants.
Zeus, 65, 260, 261; the Gaelic, 41, 51, 253; the British, 5, 324.
Zimmer, Professor, 152.
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