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CELTIC MYTHOLOGY
  1. Cf. Mythology of All Races, Boston, 1916, i. 6–8.
  2. Plutarch, De dejectu oraculorum, 18, De facie lunae, 26.
  3. See infra, pp. 54, 90, 95–96, 119-20, 122, 127, 132, 192,
  4. Procopius, ed. W. Dindorf, Bonn, 1833, ii. 566 f.
  5. Cf. Mythology of All Races, Boston, 1916, i. 145–46.
  6. Claudian, In Rufinum, i. 123.
  7. Villemarque [a], i. 136; Le Braz [a], i. p. xxxix.
  8. Pliny, Historia naturalis, iv. 13; Strabo, ii. 4 (= p. 104, ed. Casaubon).
  9. Historia naturalis, ii. 98.
  10. So called from the Greek Euhemerus (fourth century b. c), who, in a philosophical romance, of which only scanty fragments have survived, showed how the gods had been actual men and their myths records of actual events (see E. Rohde, Der griechische Roman und seine Vorläufer, 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1900, pp. 236–41, and J. Geffcken, "Euhemerism," in ERE v. 572–73).
  11. Cited as LL and LU. They have been edited at Dublin in 1880 and 1870 respectively, but neither has been completely translated.
  12. See Bibliography of Irish Philology and of Printed Irish Literature, Dublin, 1913, pp. 80–122.
  13. See Wentz, passim.


Chapter I

  1. Keating, i. 141 ff. (ITS).
  2. MS H 2, 18; text and translation in Ériu, vili. i ff. (1915).
  3. Harleian MS. 5280, text and translation by W. Stokes, in RCel xii. 61 ff. (1891).
  4. ib. XV. 69 (1894).
  5. LL 169 a, 214 b.
  6. RCel XV. 439 (1894).
  7. Harleian MS. 5280, § 39 f.
  8. ib. §§ 25 f., 165.
  9. E. O' Curry, in Atlantis, iv. 159 (1863).
  10. Harleian MS. 5280, §§ ii, 33 f.
  11. ib. § 53 f.
  12. The "Land of Promise" is a name for Elysium, perhaps borrowed by Christian editors from Biblical sources.
  13. E. O'Curry, in Atlantis, iv. 159 ff. (1863).
  14. Harleian MS. 5280, § 74 f.
  15. ib. § 84 f.
  16. ib. § 88 f.
  17. ib. §§ 96, 122; see also infra, pp. 51, 120.