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.
282. Loth, RC x. 356; John, op. cit. 19; Nutt, Arch. Rev. i. 331.
283. The giant Ysppadden in Kulhwych resembles Balor, but has no evil eye.
284. Anwyl, ZCP ii. 127-128, "The merging of the two legends of Dôn and Taliesin may have arisen through the fusion of Penllyn with Ardudwy and Arvon."
285. Professor Rh^ys thinks that the Llyr family may be pre-Celtic, TSC 1894-1895, 29 f.; CFL 552.
286. Loth, i. 97 f.; Lady Guest, iii. 143 f.
287. See Nutt, Folk-lore Record, v. 1 f.
288. Loth, i. 298, ii. 243-244; Geoffrey, Hist. Brit. ii. 11.
289. Loth, i. 224, 265, ii. 215, 244; Geoff. ii. 11.
290. Skene, i. 81; Rh^ys, Academy, Jan. 7, 1882.
291. Triads, Loth, ii. 293; Nutt, Folk-lore Record, v. 9.
292. Hist. Brit. ii. 11-14.
293. AL 131.
294. Skene, i. 262.
295. See Nutt-Meyer, ii. 17.
296. Skene, i. 276.
297. Loth, i. 208, 280; see also i. 197, ii. 245, 294.
298. See Skene i. 355. The raven is rather the bird of prey come to devour Urien than his "attribute."
299. Skene, i. 298.
300. For these theories see Rh^ys, HL 90f.; AL ch. 11; CFL 552.
301. See Ch. XXIV.
302. See p. 242.
303. Loth, i. 65, ii. 285.
304. Hist. Brit. iii. 1f. 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.
305. An early Caradawc saga may have become mingled with the story of Caractacus.
306. Rees, 77.
307. So Elton, 291.
308. Folk-lore Record, v. 29.
309. Lady Guest, iii. 134.
310. Dôn 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.
311. Loth, ii. 209.
312. See p. 60, supra, and Rh^ys, HL 90f.
313. Lady Guest, iii. 255; Skene, i. 297, 350.
314. For this Mabinogi see Loth, i. 117f.; Guest, iii. 189f.
315. Skene, i. 286.
316. Loth, ii. 229, 257; and for other references to Math, Skene, i. 281, 269, 299.
317. Skene, i. 296, 281.
318. Loth, ii. 297; Rh^ys, HL 276.
319. Skene, i. 264.
320. Rh^ys, HL 270. Skene, i. 430, 537, gives a different meaning to seon.
321. Skene, i. 264.
322. Loth, ii. 296.
323. Skene, i. 299, 531.
324. See p. 224, infra.
325. Guest, iii. 255; Morris, Celtic Remains, 231.
326. HL 283 f. See also Grimm, Teut. Myth. i. 131.
327. Loth, i. 240.
328. Stokes, US 34.
329. Myvyrian Archæol.
