[466] LL 79_a_; O’Curry, MS. Mat, 640.

[467] LL 125_a_.  See my Childhood of fiction, ch. 14.

[468] Miss Hull, lxxvi.

[469] “Da Derga’s Hostel,” RC xxii. 283; Rh[^y]s, HL 438.

[470] LL 68_a_; Rh[^y]s, 437; Ingcel the one-eyed has also many pupils (RC xxii. 58).

[471] Miss Hull, lxiii.

[472] RC viii. 49.

[473] LL 77_b_; Miss Hull, lxii.

[474] Other Celtic heroes undergo this distortion, which resembles the Scandinavian warrior rage followed by languor, as in the case of Cuchulainn.

[475] Miss Hull, p. lxvi.

[476] Irish saints, standing neck deep in freezing water, made it hot.

[477] IT i. 268; D’Arbois, v. 103; Miss Hull, lxvi.

[478] HL 448.

[479] See Meyer, RC xi. 435; Windisch, IT i. 589, 740.  Though richis means “charcoal,” it is also glossed “flame,” hence it could only be glowing charcoal, without any idea of darkness.

[480] HL 458.

[481] IT i. 107.

[482] Arch.  Rev. i. 1 f.; IT i. 213; see p. 381, infra.

[483] See p. 164, infra.

[484] Diod.  Siculus, iv. 56.

[485] IT iii. 393.

[486] Les Celtes, 58 f.  Formerly M. D’Arbois identified Smertullos with Lug, ii. 217; Holder, i. 46, 262.  For the incident of the beard, see Windisch, Tain, 308.

[487] IT iii. 395.

[488] IT i. 420.

[489] RC xxvii. 319 f.

[490] RC xviii. 256.

[491] Les Celtes, 63; RC xix. 246.

[492] D’Arbois, RC xx. 89.

[493] D’Arbois, RC xxvii. 321; Les Celtes, 65.

[494] Les Celtes, 49; Caesar, vi. 14.

[495] In contradiction to this, M. D’Arbois elsewhere thinks that Druids from Britain may have taught the Cuchulainn legend in Gaul (RC xxvii. 319).

[496] See versions in Book of the Dean of Lismore; CM xiii.; Campbell, The Fians, 6 f.

[497] CM xiii. 327, 514.  The same story is told of Fionn, ibid. 512.  See also ballad versions in Campbell, LF 3 f.

[498] See p. 212, infra.

[499] A Galatian king was called Brogitaros, probably a form of Brogitaruos, “bull of the province,” a title borne by Conchobar, tarb in choicid (IT i. 72).  This with the epithets applied to heroes in the Triads, “bull-phantom,” “prince bull of combat” (Loth, ii. 232, 243), may be an appellative denoting great strength.

[500] IT ii. 241 f.; D’Arbois, Les Druides, 168.

[501] Miss Hull, 58.

[502] See p. 212, infra.

[503] See p. 208, infra.