III.  THE AUTHORITIES

The following is a list of the authorities I have been chiefly helped by in putting these stories together and in translation of the text.  But I cannot make it quite accurate, for I have sometimes transferred a mere phrase, sometimes a whole passage from one story to another, where it seemed to fit better.  I have sometimes, in the second part of the book, used stories preserved in the Scottish Gaelic, as will be seen by my references.  I am obliged to write these notes away from libraries, and cannot verify them, but I think they are fairly correct.

PART ONE.  BOOKS ONE, TWO, AND THREE

The coming of the Tuatha de Danaan, and Lugh of
the long hand, and the coming of the Gael.—­
  O’Curry, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish;
  MSS.  Materials;
  Atlantis;
  De Jubainville, Cycle Mythologique;
  Hennessy, Chronicum Scotorum;
  Atkinson, Book of Leinster;
  Annals of the Four Masters;
  Nennius, Hist, Brit. (Irish Version);
  Zimmer, Glossae Hibernacae;
  Whitley Stokes, Three Irish Glossaries;
  Revue Celtique and Irische Texte;
  Gaedelica;
  Nutt, Voyage of Bran;
  Proceedings Ossianic Societ;
  O’Beirne Crowe, Amra Columcille;
  Dean of Lismore’s Book;
  Windisch, Irische Texte;
  Hennessy and others in Revue Celtique;
  Kilkenny Archaeological Journal;
  Keatinge’s History;
  Ogyia;
  Curtin’s Folk Tales;
  Proceedings Royal Irish Academy, MSS.  Series;
  Dr Sigerson, Bards of Gael and Gall;
  Miscellanies, Celtic Society.

BOOK FOUR

THE EVER-LIVING LIVING ONES

I have used many of the above, and for separate stories, I may give these authorities:—­

MIDHIR AND ETAIN.—­
  O’Curry, Manners and Customs;
  Whitley Stokes, Dinnsenchus;
  Mueller, Revue Celtique;
  Nutt, Voyage of Bran;
  De Jubainville, Epopee Celtique;
  Standish Hayes O’Grady, MS. lent me by him.

MANANNAN AT PLAY.—­
  S. Hayes O’Grady, Silva Gaedelica.

HIS CALL TO BRAN.—­
  Professor Kuno Meyer in Nutt’s Voyage of Bran;
  S. Hayes O’Grady, Silva Gaedelica;
  De Jubainville, Cycle Mythologique.

HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC.—­
  Whitley Stokes, Irische Texte.

CLIODNA’S WAVE.—­
  S. Hayes O’Grady, Silva Gaedelica;
  Whitley Stokes, Dinnsenchus.

HIS CALL TO CONNLA.—­
  O’Beirne Crowe, Kilkenny Arch.  Journal;
  Windisch, Irische Texte.