Crowe, Jour. Kilkenny Arch. Soc. 1870-1871, 371 f.
414. LL 79a; O'Curry, MS. Mat, 640.
415. LL 125a. See my Childhood of fiction, ch. 14.
416. Miss Hull, lxxvi.
417. "Da Derga's Hostel," RC xxii. 283; Rh^ys, HL 438.
418. LL 68a; Rh^ys, 437; Ingcel the one-eyed has also many pupils (RC xxii. 58).
419. Miss Hull, lxiii.
420. RC viii. 49.
421. LL 77b; Miss Hull, lxii.
422. Other Celtic heroes undergo this distortion, which resembles the Scandinavian warrior rage followed by languor, as in the case of Cúchulainn.
423. Miss Hull, p. lxvi.
424. Irish saints, standing neck deep in freezing water, made it hot.
425. IT i. 268; D'Arbois, v. 103; Miss Hull, lxvi.
426. HL 448.
427. 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.
428. HL 458.
429. IT i. 107.
430. Arch. Rev. i. 1 f.; IT i. 213; see p. 381, infra.
431. See p. 164, infra.
432. Diod. Siculus, iv. 56.
433. IT iii. 393.
434. 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, Táin, 308.
435. IT iii. 395.
436. IT i. 420.
437. RC xxvii. 319 f.
438. RC xviii. 256.
439. Les Celtes, 63; RC xix. 246.
440. D'Arbois, RC xx. 89.
441. D'Arbois, RC xxvii. 321; Les Celtes, 65.
442. Les Celtes, 49; Cæsar, vi. 14.
443. In contradiction to this, M. D'Arbois elsewhere thinks that Druids from Britain may have taught the Cúchulainn legend in Gaul (RC xxvii. 319).
444. See versions in Book of the Dean of Lismore; CM xiii.; Campbell, The Fians, 6 f.
445. CM xiii. 327, 514. The same story is told of Fionn, ibid. 512. See also ballad versions in Campbell, LF 3 f.
446. See p. 212, infra.
447. A Galatian king was called Brogitaros, probably a form of Brogitaruos, "bull of the province," a title borne by Conchobar, tarb in chóicid (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.
448. IT ii. 241 f.; D'Arbois, Les Druides, 168.
449. Miss Hull, 58.
450. See p. 212, infra.
451. See p. 208, infra.
452. Fitzgerald, RC vi. 254.
453. See p. 243, infra.
The Fionn Saga
The most prominent characters in the Fionn saga, after the death of Fionn's father Cumal, are Fionn, his son Oisin, his grandson Oscar, his nephew Diarmaid with his ball-seire, or "beauty-spot," which no woman could resist; Fergus famed for wisdom and eloquence; Caoilte mac Ronan, the swift; Conan, the comic character of the saga; Goll mac Morna, the slayer of Cumal, but later the devoted friend of Fionn, besides a host of less important personages. Their doings, like those of the heroes of saga and epos everywhere, are mainly hunting, fighting, and love-making. They embody much of the Celtic character—vivacity, valour, kindness, tenderness, as well as boastfulness and fiery temper. Though dating from pagan times, the saga throws little light upon pagan beliefs, but reveals much concerning the manners of the period. Here, as always in early Celtdom, woman is more than a mere chattel, and occupies a comparatively
