Footnote 402: Plutarch: _De Defectu Oraculorum_. Footnote 403: The _Seint Greal_, quoted by Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, pp. 61-62. Footnote 404: Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, p. 59. Footnote 405: Elton: _Origins of English History_, p. 269. Footnote 406: Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, p. 12. Footnote 407: _Ibid._, p. 70. Footnote 408: The name March means “horse”. Footnote 409: _Morte Darthur._ Book X, chap. XXVII. Footnote 410: Called Labraid Longsech. Footnote 411: Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_. See chap. XI—“Urien and his Congeners”. Footnote 412: _Ibid._, p. 260. Footnote 413: _Ibid._, p. 261. Footnote 414: _Ibid._, p. 256. Footnote 415: Red Book of Hergest, XII. Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, pp. 253-256. Footnote 416: Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, p. 247. Footnote 417: _Ibid._ Footnote 418: _The Death-song of Owain._ Taliesin, XLIV, Skene, Vol. I, p. 366. Footnote 419: Book of Taliesin, XXXII. Skene, however, translates the word rendered “evening” by Rhys as “cultivated plain”. Footnote 420: Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, p. 345. Footnote 421: Both by Malory and Geoffrey of Monmouth. Footnote 422: Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, p. 256. Footnote 423: See chap. XVIII—“The Wooing of Branwen and the Beheading of Brân”. Footnote 424: He is called Ogyrvran the Giant. Footnote 425: Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, p. 326. Footnote 426: Rhys: _Hibbert Lectures_, pp. 268-269. Footnote 427: Rhys: _Lectures on Welsh Philology_, p. 306. But the derivation is only tentative, and an interesting alternative one is given, which equates him with the Persian Ahriman. Footnote 428: The enumeration of Arthur’s three Gwynhwyvars forms one of the Welsh triads. Footnote 429: Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, p. 342. Footnote 430: See chap. XI—“The Gods in Exile”. Footnote 431: Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, chap. II—“Arthur and Airem”. Footnote 432: In the mysterious Lancelot, not found in Arthurian story before the Norman adaptations of it, Professor Rhys is inclined to see a British sun-god, or solar hero. A number of interesting comparisons are drawn between him and the Peredur and Owain of the later “Mabinogion” tales, as well as with the Gaelic Cuchulainn. See _Studies in the Arthurian Legend_. Footnote 433: _Morte Darthur_, Book XXI, chap. I. Footnote 434: The fullest list of translated triads is contained in the appendix to Probert’s _Ancient Laws of Cambria_, 1823. Many are also given as an appendix in Skene’s _Four Ancient Books of Wales_. Footnote 435: _Black Book of Caermarthen XIX_, Vol. I, pp. 309-318 in Skene. Footnote 436: This is Professor Rhys’s translation of the Welsh line, no doubt more strictly correct than the famous rendering: “Unknown is the grave of Arthur”. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER XXII THE TREASURES OF BRITAIN