NEIT (nayt). Danaan king, slain in battle with the Fomorians, 132 NEMED. Son of Agnoman; takes possession of Ireland, 98; fights victoriously against Fomorians, his death, 101 NEMEDIANS. Sail for Ireland, 99; akin to the Partholanians, 101; revolt of, against Fomorians, 101, 102; routed by Fomorians, 102 NEMGLAN. Commands Conary go to Tara, 168; he declares Conary’s _geise_, 168 NENNIUS. British historian in whose “Historia Britonum” (A.D. 800) is found first mention of Arthur, 336 NESSA. Daughter of Echid Yellow-heel, wife of Fachtna, mother of Conor, 180; loved by Fergus, 180 NETHERLANDS. Place-names of, Celtic element in, 27 NEW GRANGE. Tumulus at, regarded as dwelling-place of Fairy Folk, 69, 70; symbolic carvings at, 70, 71; the ship symbol at, 71-73; Angus Ōg’s palace at, 121; Angus’ fairy palace at Brugh na Boyna identical with, 143 NIAM (nee’am). 1. Wife of Conall of the Victories; tends Cuchulain, 229; Bave puts a spell of straying on her, 230 2. Of the Golden Hair; daughter of the King of the Land of Youth, 270; Oisīn departs with, 271, 272; permits Oisīn to visit the Land of Erin, 273 NISS´YEN. Son of Eurosswyd and Penardun, 366 NODENS. See Nudd NUADA OF THE SILVER HAND (noo’ada). King of the Danaans, 107-108; his encounter with Balor, champion of the Fomorians, 117; belongs to Finn’s ancestry, 255; identical with solar deity in Cymric mythology, viz., Nudd or Lludd, 346, 347 NUDD, or LLUDD. Roman equivalent, Nodens. A solar deity in Cymric mythology, 346, 347; identical with Danaan deity, Nuada of the Silver Hand, 347; under name Lludd, said to have had a temple on the site of St. Paul’s, 347; entrance to Lludd’s temple called _Parth Lludd_ (British), which Saxons translated _Ludes Geat_—our present Ludgate, 347; story of Llevelys and, 385, 386; Edeyrn, son of, jousts with Geraint for Enid, 399, 400 NUTS OF KNOWLEDGE. Drop from hazel-boughs into pool where Salmon of Knowledge lived, 256 NUTT, MR. ALFRED. Reference to, in connexion with the “Hill of Ainé,” 128, 129; reference to, in connexion with Oisīn-and-Patrick dialogues, 288, 289; reference to object of the tale of Taliesin in his edition of the “Mabinogion,” 412 NYNNIAW. Peibaw and, brothers, two Kings of Britain, their quarrel over the stars, 355, 356 O O’DONOVAN. A great Irish antiquary; folk-tale discovered by, 109-119 O’DYNA, CANTRED OF. Dermot’s patrimony, 300 O’GRADY. 1. STANDISH. References to his “Critical History of Ireland” on the founding of Emain Macha, 119, 120, 151, 152; his “Masque of Finn” referred to, 280, 281 2. STANDISH HAYES. Reference to his “Silva Gadelica,” 250, 276, 281 OCEAN-SWEEPER. Mananan’s magical boat, 125 ODYSSEY, THE. Mr H.B. Cotterill’s hexameter version, quotation from, 79, 80