[1236] TOS iv. 234.  See also Joyce, OCR 385; Kennedy, 240.

[1237] LU 43 f.; IT i. 205 f.; O’Curry, Atlantis, ii., iii.; D’Arbois, v. 170; Leahy, i. 60 f.

[1238] “From Manannan came foes.”

[1239] Joyce, OCR 223 f.

[1240] O’Grady, ii. 290.  In this story the sea is identified with Fiachna’s wife.

[1241] Joyce, OCR 253 f.

[1242] IT iii. 211 f.; D’Arbois, ii. 185.

[1243] O’Curry, MS. Mat. 388.

[1244] A similar idea occurs in many Fian tales.

[1245] Evans, Welsh Dict. s.v. “Annwfn”; Anwyl, 60; Gaidoz, ZCP i. 29 f.

[1246] Loth, i. 27 f.; see p. 111, supra.

[1247] Pp. 106, 112, supra.

[1248] Guest, iii. 75; Loth, i. 29 f.

[1249] Skene, i. 264, 276.  Cf. the Ille tournoiont of the Graal romances and the revolving houses of Maerchen.  A revolving rampart occurs in “Maelduin” (RC x. 81).

[1250] Skene, i. 285.

[1251] Pp. 103, 116, supra.

[1252] Chretien, Eric, 1933 f.; Geoffrey, Vita Merlini, 41; San Marte, Geoffrey, 425.  Another Irish Liban is called Muirgen, which is the same as Morgen.  See Girald.  Cambr. Spec.  Eccl. Rolls Series, iv. 48.

[1253] William of Malmesbury, de Ant.  Glaston.  Eccl.

[1254] San Marte, 425.

[1255] Op. cit. iv. 49.

[1256] Joyce, OCR 434; Rh[^y]s, CFL i. 170; Hardiman, Irish Minst. i. 367; Sebillot, ii. 56 f.; Girald.  Cambr. ii. 12.  The underworld is sometimes reached through a well (cf. p. 282, supra; TI iii. 209).

[1257] Le Braz{2}, i. p. xxxix, ii. 37 f.; Albert le Grand, Vies de Saints de Bretagne, 63.

[1258] A whole class of such Irish legends is called Tomhadna, “Inundations.”  A typical instance is that of the town below Lough Neagh, already referred to by Giraldus Cambrensis, Top.  Hib. ii. 9; cf. a Welsh instance in Itin.  Cambr. i. 2.  See Rh[^y]s, CFL, passim; Kennedy, 282; Rev. des Trad.  Pop. ix. 79.

[1259] Scott.  Celt.  Rev. i. 70; Campbell, WHT Nos. 38, 52; Loth, i. 38.

[1260] Curtin, Tales, 158; Rh[^y]s, CFL i. 230.

[1261] Nutt-Meyer, i. 159.

[1262] In the Vedas, Elysium has also a strong agricultural aspect, probably for the same reasons.

[1263] D’Arbois, ii. 119, 192, 385, vi. 197, 219; RC xxvi. 173; Les Druides, 121.

[1264] For the text see Windisch, Ir.  Gram. 120:  “Totchurethar bii bithbi at gerait do dainib Tethrach. ar-dot-chiat each dia i n-dalaib tathardai eter dugnathu inmaini.”  Dr. Stokes and Sir John Rh[^y]s have both privately confirmed the interpretation given above.