The Religion of the Ancient Celts Part 13

[362] Don 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.

[363] Loth, ii. 209.

[364] See p. 60, _supra_, and Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 90_f_.

[365] Lady Guest, iii. 255; Skene, i. 297, 350.

[366] For this _Mabinogi_ see Loth, i. 117f.; Guest, iii. 189f.

[367] Skene, i. 286.

[368] Loth, ii. 229, 257; and for other references to Math, Skene, i.

281, 269, 299.

[369] Skene, i. 296, 281.

[370] Loth, ii. 297; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 276.

[371] Skene, i. 264.

[372] Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 270. Skene, i. 430, 537, gives a different meaning to _seon_.

[373] Skene, i. 264.

[374] Loth, ii. 296.

[375] Skene, i. 299, 531.

[376] See p. 224, _infra_.

[377] Guest, iii. 255; Morris, _Celtic Remains_, 231.

[378] _HL_ 283 _f_. See also Grimm, _Teut. Myth._ i. 131.

[379] Loth, i. 240.

[380] Stokes, _US_ 34.

[381] _Myvyrian Archaeol._ i. 168; Skene, i. 275, 278 f.; Loth, ii. 259.

[382] See my _Childhood of Fiction_, 127. Llew's vulnerability does not depend on the discovery of his separable soul, as is usual. The earliest form of this _Marchen_ is the Egyptian story of the Two Brothers, and that of Samson and Delilah is another old form of it.

[383] Skene, i. 314, ii. 342.

[384] _HL_ 408; _RC_ x. 490.

[385] _HL_ 237, 319, 398, 408.

[386] _HL_ 384.

[387] _HL_ 474, 424.

[388] Loth, ii. 231.

[389] Loth, i. 240.

[390] Skene, i, 286-287.

[391] Loth, ii. 263.

[392] Skene, ii. 159; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 157; Guest, iii. 255.

[393] Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 161, 566.

[394] Skene, i. 282, 288, 310, 543, ii. 145; Loth, i. 135; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 387.

[395] Loth, i. 27 f.; Guest, iii. 7 f.

[396] Rhiannon is daughter of Heveidd Hen or "the Ancient," probably an old divinity.

[397] In the _Mabinogi_ and in Fionn tales a mysterious hand s.n.a.t.c.hes away newly-born children. Cf. _ZCP_ i. 153.

[398] Anwyl, _ZCP_ i. 288.

[399] Loth, ii. 247.

[400] Skene, i. 264.

[401] Ibid. i. 276.

[402] Ibid. i. 310.

[403] Loth, i. 166.

[404] _Hist. Brit._ ii. 11, iii. 1, 20, iv. 3.

[405] Cf. Anwyl, _ZCP_ i. 287.

[406] Skene, i. 431; Loth, ii. 278. Some phrases seem to connect Beli with the sea--the waves are his cattle, the brine his liquor.

[407] Loth, ii. 209, 249, 260, 283.

[408] Geoffrey, _Brit. Hist._ iv. 3. 4.

[409] Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 125 f.; Loth, i. 265; MacBain, _CM_ ix. 66.

[410] See Loth, i. 269; and Skene, i. 293.