The Religion of the Ancient Celts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about The Religion of the Ancient Celts.

The Religion of the Ancient Celts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about The Religion of the Ancient Celts.

FOOTNOTES: 

[696] Reinach, BF 66, 244.  The bull and three cranes may be a rebus on the name of the bull, Tarvos Trikarenos, “the three-headed,” or perhaps Trikeras, “three-horned.”

[697] Plutarch, Marius, 23; Caesar, vii. 65; D’Arbois, Les Celtes, 49.

[698] Holder, s.v. Tarba, Tarouanna, Tarvisium, etc.; D’Arbois, Les Druides, 155; S. Greg. In Glor.  Conf. 48.

[699] CIL xiii. 6017; RC xxv. 47; Holder, ii. 528.

[700] Leahy, ii. 105 f.; Curtin, MFI 264, 318; Joyce, PN i. 174; Rees, 453.  Cf.  Ailred, Life of S. Ninian, c. 8.

[701] Jocelyn, Vita S. Kentig. c. 24; Rees, 293, 323.

[702] Tacitus, Germ. xlv.; Blanchet, i. 162, 165; Reinach, BF 255 f., CMR i. 168; Bertrand, Arch.  Celt. 419.

[703] Pennant, Tour in Scotland, 268; Reinach, RC xxii. 158, CMR i. 67.

[704] Pausan, vii. 17, 18; Johnson, Journey, 136.

[705] Joyce, SH ii. 127; IT i. 99, 256 (Bricriu’s feast and the tale of Macdatho’s swine).

[706] Strabo, iv. 4. 3, says these swine attacked strangers.  Varro, de Re Rustica, ii. 4, admires their vast size.  Cf.  Polyb. ii. 4.

[707] The hunt is first mentioned in Nennius, c. 79, and then appears as a full-blown folk-tale in Kulhwych, Loth, i. 185 f.  Here the boar is a transformed prince.

[708] I have already suggested, p. 106, supra, that the places where Gwydion halted with the swine of Elysium were sites of a swine-cult.

[709] RC xiii. 451.  Cf. also TOS vi.  “The Enchanted Pigs of Oengus,” and Campbell, LF 53.

[710] L’Anthropologie, vi. 584; Greenwell, British Barrows, 274, 283, 454; Arch.  Rev. ii. 120.

[711] Rev. Arch. 1897, 313.

[712] Reinach, “Zagreus le serpent cornu,” Rev. Arch. xxxv. 210.

[713] Reinach, BF 185; Bertrand, 316.

[714] “Cuchulainn’s Sick-bed,” D’Arbois, v. 202.

[715] See Reinach, CMR i. 57.

[716] CIL xiii. 5160, xii. 2199.  Rh[^y]s, however, derives Artaios from ar, “ploughed land,” and equates the god with Mercurius Cultor.

[717] CIL xii. 1556-1558; D’Arbois, RC x. 165.

[718] For all these place and personal names, see Holder and D’Arbois, op. cit.  Les Celtes, 47 f., Les Druides, 157 f.

[719] See p. 32, supra; Reinach, CMR i. 72, Rev. Arch. ii. 123.

[720] O’Grady, ii. 123.

[721] Epona is fully discussed by Reinach in his Epona, 1895, and in articles (illustrated) in Rev. Arch. vols. 26, 33, 35, 40, etc.  See also ii. [1898], 190.

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