strength no one could resist; and Arthur himself, who, after revenging the death of Gwalchmei upon Medrawt, went to the island of Avilion to heal him of his grievous wounds. And thence—from the Elysium of the Celts—popular belief has always been that he will some day return. But just as the gods of the Gaels are said to dwell sometimes in the “Land of the Living”, beyond the western wave, and sometimes in the palace of a hollow hill, so Arthur is sometimes thought to be in Avilion, and sometimes to be sitting with his champions in a charmed sleep in some secret place, waiting for the trumpet to be blown that shall call him forth to reconquer Britain. The legend is found in the Eildon Hills; in the Snowdon district; at Cadbury, in Somerset, the best authenticated Camelot; in the Vale of Neath, in South Wales; as well as in other places. He slumbers, but he has not died. The ancient Welsh poem called “The Verses of the Graves of the Warriors”[435] enumerates the last resting-places of most of the British gods and demi-gods. “The grave of Gwydion is in the marsh of Dinlleu”, the grave of Lieu Llaw Gyffes is “under the protection of the sea with which he was familiar”, and “where the wave makes a sullen sound is the grave of Dylan”; we know the graves of Pryderi, of Gwalchmei, of March, of Mabon, even of the great Beli, but “Not wise the thought—a grave for Arthur”.[436] ----- Footnote 358: A poem in praise of Geraint, “the brave man from the region of Dyvnaint (Devon) ... the enemy of tyranny and oppression”, is contained in both the Black Book of Caermarthen and the Red Book of Hergest. “When Geraint was born, open were the gates of heaven”, begins its last verse. It is translated in Vol. I of Skene, p. 267. Footnote 359: Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, p. 8. Footnote 360: Rhys: _Hibbert Lectures_, pp. 40-41. Footnote 361: Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, p. 7. Footnote 362: “It is worthy of remark that the fame of Arthur is widely spread; he is claimed alike as a prince in Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, Cumberland, and the Lowlands of Scotland; that is to say, his fame is conterminous with the Brythonic race, and does not extend to the Gaels”.—_Chambers’s Encyclopædia._ Footnote 363: For Arthurian and Fenian parallels see Campbell’s _Popular Tales of the West Highlands_. Footnote 364: See chap. I of Rhys’s _Arthurian Legend_—“Arthur, Historical and Mythical”. Footnote 365: A triad in the Hengwrt MS. 536, translated by Skene. It was Trystan who was watching the swine for his uncle, while the swineherd went with a message to Essylt (Iseult), “and Arthur desired one pig by deceit or by theft, and could not get it.” Footnote 366: See note to chap. XXII—“The Treasures of Britain”. Footnote 367: _Book of Taliesin_, poem XXX, Skene, Vol. I, p. 256. Footnote 368: