RHIANNON (ree’an-non). Daughter of Hevydd Hēn; sets her love on Pwyll, 360; marries Pwyll, 362; her penance for slaying her son, 363; her son Pryderi (Trouble) found, 365; wedded to Manawyddan, 373 RHONABWY (rōne’a-bwee). The dream of, 392, 393 RHUN. Sent from King Arthur’s court to Elphin’s wife, 415 RHYS AP TEWDWR. South Welsh prince; brought knowledge of Round Table to Wales, 343 RHYS, SIR J. His views on origin of population of Great Britain and Ireland, 78; on Myrddin and Merlin, 354, 355 RIDGE OF THE DEAD WOMAN. Vivionn buried at, 287, 288 ROC. Angus’ steward, 290; his son crushed to death by Donn, 291; then changed into a boar and charged to bring Dermot to death at length, 291 ROMANCE. Gaelic and Continental, 345 ROMANS. Arthur resists demand for tribute by the, 337 ROME. Celts march on and sack, 25, 26; Britain and Gaul under yoke of, 35; the empire of Maxen Wledig in, usurped, 385 ROSS THE RED. King of Ulster, husband of Maga, a daughter of Angus Ōg, 181; Roy, his second wife, 181; originator of the Red Branch, 181 ROUND TABLE, THE. References to, 338, 339, 341, 343 ROY. Second wife of Ross the Red, 181 RU´ADAN, ST. Tara cursed by, 47, 49 RUSSELL, MR. G.W. Irish poet; fine treatment of myth of Sinend and Connla’s Well, 129, 130 S SABA. Wife of Finn, mother of Oisīn, 266-270 SACRIFICES. Practice of human, noted by Cæsar among Celts, 84; human, in Ireland, 85; Celtic practice of human, paralleled in Mexico and Carthage, 85; of children, to idol Crom Cruach, by Gaels, 85; in Egypt, practice of human, rare, 85, 86 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; Ethné aged fifteen hundred years old at coming of, 144; Ethné baptized by, 144; summons Cuchulain from Hell, 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 SA´WAN. Brother of Kian and Goban, 110 SCANDINAVIA. Dolmens found in, 53; symbol of the feet found in, 77 SEM´ION. Son of Stariat, settlement in Ireland of; Firbolgs descended from, 100 SERA. Father of Partholan, 96; father of Starn, 98 SETAN´TA. Earliest name of Cuchulain, 183; “the little pupil,” harries Maev’s 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; Dithorba’s five sons flee over, 151; mac Cecht visits, 175; Dermot and Grania cross Ford of Luan on the, 299