VERCINGETORIX. Celtic chief; his defeat by Cæsar, his death, 40 VERGIL. Evidence of Celtic ancestry in name, 21. See Feryllt, 413 VITRA. The God of Evil in Vedantic mythology, related to _Cenchos_, the Footless, 97 VIVIONN (BEBHIONN). A young giantess, daughter of Treon, from the Land of Maidens, 287; slain by Æda, and buried in the place called the Ridge of the Dead, 288 VOYAGE OF MAELDŪN. See Maeldūn W WACE. Author of “Li Romans de Brut,” 338 WALES. Arthurian saga in, 343, 344; prophecy of Taliesin about, 385 WAVE OF CLEENA. See Tonn Cliodhna WEE FOLK, THE. Fergus mac Leda and, 246-249; Iubdan, King of, 246 WELL OF KESAIR. Mac Cecht visits, 175 WELL OF KNOWLEDGE. Equivalent, Connla’s Well. Sinend’s fatal visit to, 129 WELSH FAIRIES. See Tylwyth Teg WELSH LITERATURE. The Arthur in the Arthurian saga wholly different from the Arthur in, 336; compared with Irish, 344; tales of Arthur in, 386 WELSH MS. SOCIETY. Llewellyn Sion’s “Barddas” edited by J.A. Williams ap Ithel for, 332 WELSH ROMANCE. The character of, 395, 396 WESTON, MISS JESSIE L. Reference to her studies on the Arthurian saga, 341 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. Reference to, in connexion with Arthurian saga, 343 WOLFRAM VON ESCHENBACH. His story of the Grail, 407 Y YELLOW BOOK OF LECAN. Tale of Cuchulain and Connla in, 192 YOUTH. The maiden who gave the Love Spot to Dermot, 292 YSPADDADEN PENKAWR (is-pa-dhad’en). Father of Olwen, 387; the tasks he set Kilhwch, 390-392; slain by Goreu son of Custennin, 392 Z ZIMMER, DR. HEINRICH. On the source of the Arthurian saga, 343 ZOROASTER. Religion of magic invented by, 61 1 In reference to the name “Freeman,” Mr. Nicholson adds: “No one was more intensely ‘English’ in his sympathies than the great historian of that name, and probably no one would have more strenuously resisted the suggestion that he might be of Welsh descent; yet I have met his close physical counterpart in a Welsh farmer (named Evans) living within a few minutes of Pwllheli.” 2 He speaks of “Nyrax, a Celtic city,” and “Massalia [Marseilles], a city of Liguria in the land of the Celts” (“Fragmenta Hist. Græc.”). 3 In his “Premiers Habitants de l’Europe,” vol. ii. 4 “Cæesar’s Conquest of Gaul,” pp. 251-327.