Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Part 42

GWALCHMAI.

Nephew of King Arthur, 397, 401

GWAWL.

Rival of Pwylls for Rhiannons hand, 361, 362

GWENHWYVAR (gwenhoo-ivar).

Wife of King Arthur, 394

GWERN.

Son of Matholwch and Branwen, 368; a.s.sumes sovranty of Ireland, 370

GWION BACH. Son of Gwreang; put to stir magic cauldron by Ceridwen, 413; similar action to Finn, 413

GWLWLYD (goo-loolid).

The dun oxen of, 390

GWREANG (goore-ang).

Father of Gwion Bach, 413

GWRNACH (goor-nach).

Giant; the sword of the, 390

GWYDDNO GARANHIR.

Horses of, drink of poisoned stream, hence the stream Poison of the Horses of, 413; his son Elphin finds Taliesin, 414

GWYDION.

Son of Don; place in Cymric mythology taken later by the G.o.d Artaius, 349; nephew of Math, 378; the swine of Pryderi and, 378-380

GWYN AP NUDD.

A Cymric deity likened to Finn (Gaelic) and to Odin (Norse), 349; combat every May-day between Gwythur ap Greidawl and, 353, 388

GWYNEDD.

Math, lord of, 378

GWYNFYD.

Purity; the second of three concentric circles representing the totality of being in the Cymric cosmogony, in which life is manifested as a pure, rejoicing force triumphant over evil, 334

GWYTHUR AP GREIDAWL (VICTOR, SON OF SCORCHER).

Combat every May-day between Gwyn ap Nudd and, 353, 388

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HADES (or ANNWN).

The Magic Cauldron part of the spoils of, 410

HAMILCAR.

Defeat of, at Himera, by Gelon, 22

HAMITIC, THE.

Preserved in syntax of Celtic languages, 78

HAVGAN.

Rival of Arawn; mortally wounded by Pwyll, 357,358

HECATUS OF ABDERA.

Musical services of Celts (probably of Great Britain) described by, 58

HECATUS OF MILETUS.

First extant mention of Celts by, 17

HEILYN.

Son of Gwynn, 372

HEININ.

Bard at Arthurs court, 416

h.e.l.lANICUS OF LESBOS.

Celts and, 17

HERODOTUS.

Celts and, 17, 56

HEVYDD HEN.

Father of Rhiannon, 360

HIGH KINGS OF IRELAND.

Stone of Destiny used for crowning of, 105

HILL OF AIN.

Name of G.o.ddess Ain clings to, 128; Ain appears, on a St. Johns Night, among girls on, 128

HILL OF ALLEN.

Finns hounds, while returning to, recognise Saba, 266; Oisin returns to, 273; Finn returns to, 278; return of the Fianna to, to celebrate the wedding feast of Finn and Tasha, 295; Finn bears Grania as his bride to, 304

HILL OF KESHCORRAN. Finn bewitched by hags on, 277

HILL OF MACHA. Significance, 251

HISTORIA BRITONUM. See Nennius

HISTORIA REGUM BRITANI. See Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Furnished subject for Gorborduc and King Lear, 338; wonderful success of, translated by Wace into French, by Layamon into Anglo-Saxon, 338, 339

HOMER. His gloomy picture of the departed souls of men conducted to the underworld, 79, 80; reference to, 147

HORSES OF MANANAN. White-crested waves called, 125

HOUND OF ULSTER. See Cuchulain, 217, 233; element in Gaelic names, 184