[330] Anwyl, ZCP i. 277, ii. 124, iii. 122.

[331] Bp. of S. Davids, Vestiges of the Gael in Gwynned, 1851; Rh[^y]s, TSC 1894-1895, 21.

[332] Skene, i. 45; Meyer, TSC 1895-1896, 55.

[333] Cf.  John, The Mabinogion, 1901, 19.  Curoi appears as Kubert, and Conchobar as Knychur in Kulhwych (Loth, i. 202).  A poem of Taliesin has for subject the death of Corroi, son of Dayry (Curoi mac Daire), Skene, i. 254.

[334] Loth, RC x. 356; John, op. cit. 19; Nutt, Arch.  Rev. i. 331.

[335] The giant Ysppadden in Kulhwych resembles Balor, but has no evil eye.

[336] Anwyl, ZCP ii. 127-128, “The merging of the two legends [of Don and Taliesin] may have arisen through the fusion of Penllyn with Ardudwy and Arvon.”

[337] Professor Rh[^y]s thinks that the Llyr family may be pre-Celtic, TSC 1894-1895, 29 f.; CFL 552.

[338] Loth, i. 97 f.; Lady Guest, iii. 143 f.

[339] See Nutt, Folk-lore Record, v. 1 f.

[340] Loth, i. 298, ii. 243-244; Geoffrey, Hist.  Brit. ii. 11.

[341] Loth, i. 224, 265, ii. 215, 244; Geoff. ii. 11.

[342] Skene, i. 81; Rh[^y]s, Academy, Jan. 7, 1882.

[343] Triads, Loth, ii. 293; Nutt, Folk-lore Record, v. 9.

[344] Hist.  Brit. ii. 11-14.

[345] AL 131.

[346] Skene, i. 262.

[347] See Nutt-Meyer, ii. 17.

[348] Skene, i. 276.

[349] Loth, i. 208, 280; see also i. 197, ii. 245, 294.

[350] See Skene i. 355.  The raven is rather the bird of prey come to devour Urien than his “attribute.”

[351] Skene, i. 298.

[352] For these theories see Rh[^y]s, HL 90_f_.; AL ch. 11; CFL 552.

[353] See Ch.  XXIV.

[354] See p. 242.

[355] Loth, i. 65, ii. 285.

[356] Hist.  Brit. iii. 1_f_.  Geoffrey says that Billingsgate was called after Belinus, and that his ashes were preserved in the gate, a tradition recalling some connection of the god with the gate.

[357] An early Caradawc saga may have become mingled with the story of Caractacus.

[358] Rees, 77.

[359] So Elton, 291.

[360] Folk-lore Record, v. 29.

[361] Lady Guest, iii. 134.

[362] Don is sometimes held to be male, but she is distinctly called sister of Math (Loth, i. 134), and as the equivalent of Danu she must be female.

[363] Loth, ii. 209.

[364] See p. 60, supra, and Rh[^y]s, HL 90_f_.

[365] Lady Guest, iii. 255; Skene, i. 297, 350.

[366] For this Mabinogi see Loth, i. 117f.; Guest, iii. 189f.

[367] Skene, i. 286.

[368] Loth, ii. 229, 257; and for other references to Math, Skene, i. 281, 269, 299.