Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Part 49

ST. BENEN. A companion of St. Patrick, 239

ST. FINNEN. Irish abbot; legend concernin Tuan mac Carell and, 97

ST. PATRICK. Record of his mission to Ireland, 51; Cascorach and, referred to in the Colloquy of the Ancients, 119; Brogan, the scribe of, 119; Ethn aged fifteen hundred years old at coming of, 144; Ethn baptized by, 144; summons Cuchulain from h.e.l.l, 238, 239; name Talkenn given by Irish to, 275; met by Keelta, 282; Irish legend and, 283

SALMON OF KNOWLEDGE. See Fintan

SALMON OF LLYN LLYW (lin li-oo), THE, 392

SAMNITE WAR, THIRD. Coincident with breaking up of Celtic Empire, 26

SANCHAN TORPEST. Chief bard of Ireland; and the Tain, 234-238

SAWAN. Brother of Kian and Goban, 110

SCANDINAVIA. Dolmens found in, 53; symbol of the feet found in, 77

SEMION. Son of Stariat, settlement in Ireland of; Firbolgs descended from, 100

SERA. Father of Partholan, 96; father of Starn, 98

SETANTA. Earliest name of Cuchulain, 183; the little pupil, harries Maevs hosts, 208

SGEIMH SOLAIS (skayv sulish) (Light of Beauty).

Daughter of Cairbry, wooed by son of King of the Decies, 304

SHANNON, THE RIVER. Myth of Sinend and the Well of Knowledge accounts for name of, 129; Dithorbas five sons flee over, 151; mac Cecht visits, 175; Dermot and Grania cross Ford of Luan on the, 299

s.h.i.+P SYMBOL, THE. 71-76

SICULUS, DIODORUS. A contemporary of Julius Csar; describes Gauls, 41, 42

SIDHE (shee), or FAIRY FOLK. Tumulus at New Grange (Ireland) regarded as dwelling-place of, 69

SILVA GADELICA. Reference to Mr. S.H. OGradys work, 250, 276, 281

SINEND. G.o.ddess, daughter of Lirs son, Lodan; her fatal visit to Connlas Well, 129

SIGN, LLEWELLYN. Welsh bard, compiler of Barddas, 332

SKATHA. A mighty woman-warrior of Land of Shadows, 187; instructs Cuchulain, 187-189; her two special feats, how to leap the Bridge of the Leaps and to use the Gae Bolg, 188

SKENA. Wife of the poet Amergin; her untimely death, 133

SLAYNEY, THE RIVER. Visited by mac Cecht, 175

SLIEVB BLOOM. Murna takes refuge in forests of, and there Demna (Finn) is born, 255

SLIEVE FUAD (sleeve fooad) (afterwards Slievegallion).

Invisible dwelling of Lir on, 125; Cuchulain finds his foe on, 232; Finn slays goblin at, 258

SLIEVEGALLION. A fairy mountain; the Chase of, 278-280.

See Slieve Fuad

SLIEVENAMON (sleeve-na-mon). The Brugh of, Finn and Keelta hunt on, 284-286

SOHRAB AND RUSTUM. Reference to, 192

SPAIN. Celts conquer from the Carthaginians, 21; Carthaginian trade with, broken down by Greeks, 22; place-names of Celtic element in, 27; dolmens found round the Mediterranean coast of, 53; equivalent, Land of the Dead, 102

SQUIRE, MR. Author of Mythol. of Brit. Islands, 348, 353, 411

SRENG. Amba.s.sador sent to People of Dana by Firbolgs, 106

STAG OF REDYNVRE (red-invry), THE, 392

STARN. Son of Sera, brother of Partholan, 97

STOKES, DR. WHITLEY. Reference to, 166, 167; reference to his translation of the Voyage of Maeldun in Revue Celtique, 309

STONE, CORONATION. At Westminster Abbey, identical with Stone of Scone, 105

STONE OF ABUNDANCE. Equivalent, Cauldron of Abundance.

The Grail in Wolframs poem as a, 409; similar stone appears in the Welsh Peredur, 409; correspondences, the Celtic Cauldron of the Dagda, 410; in the Welsh legend Bran obtained the Cauldron, 410; in a poem by Taliesin the Cauldron forms part of the spoils of Hades, 410

STONE OF DESTINY. Otherwise _Lia Fail_.

One of the treasures of the Danaans, 105

STONE OF SCONE. Fabulous origin of, and present depository, 105

STONE-WORs.h.i.+P. Supposed reason of, 65, 66; denounced by Synod of Arles, 66; denounced by Charlemagne 66; black stone of Pergamos and Second Punic War, 66; the Grail a relic of ancient, 409

STONEHENGE. Dressed stones used in megalithic monument at, 54; Professor Rhys suggestion that Myrddin was wors.h.i.+pped at, 354; Geoffrey of Monmouth and, 354

STRABO. Characteristics of Celts, told by, 39, 46

STRAITS OF MOYLE (between Ireland and Scotland).

Aoifes cruelty to her step-children on the, 140

STRAND OF THE FOOTPRINTS. How name derived, 191

SUALTAM (sooal-tam). Father of Cuchulain (see Lugh), 206; his attempts to arouse Ulster, 221; his death, 222

SWEDEN. The s.h.i.+p symbol on rock-sculptures of, 72, 73

SWITZERLAND. Place-names of, Celtic element in, 27; lake-dwellings in, 56

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