SHIP SYMBOL, THE. 71-76 SIC´ULUS, DIODORUS. A contemporary of Julius Cæsar; 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. O’Grady’s work, 250, 276, 281 SIN´END. Goddess, daughter of Lir’s son, Lodan; her fatal visit to Connla’s 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 foo’ad) (afterwards Slievegallion). Invisible dwelling of Lir on, 125; Cuchulain finds his foe on, 232; Finn slays goblin at, 258 SLIEVEGALL´ION. 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. Ambassador sent to People of Dana by Firbolgs, 106 STAG OF REDYNVRE (red-in’vry), 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 Maeldūn” 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 Wolfram’s 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-WORSHIP. 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 worshipped at, 354; Geoffrey of Monmouth and, 354 STRABO. Characteristics of Celts, told by, 39, 46 STRAITS OF MOYLE (between Ireland and Scotland). Aoife’s cruelty to her step-children on the, 140 STRAND OF THE FOOTPRINTS. How name derived, 191