The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and RomanceSquire, Charles
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The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and Romance
Squire, Charles
Celts -- Folklore; Mythology, Celtic
assists Kulhwch to win Olwen, 345.
Amergin, druid of the Milesians, 123-130.
Amesbury, “castle” of, 29.
Amlwch, stream of, 295.
Ana, see Anu.
Ancient Britons, who were the, 18-23.
Aneurin, a sixth-century British bard, 11, 295, 372.
Aneurin, the Book of, 11.
Anglesey, island of, 289, 294, 322, 388, 400.
Anglo-Saxon, our descent not entirely, 3.
Anguish, Anguissance, king of Ireland, 357.
Angus, Gaelic god of love and beauty, 56, 79, 80, 117, 136, 139-142,
147, 156, 157, 205, 211-214, 217, 218, 221, 240;
his attributes, 56;
his wooing of Caer, 140-142;
cheats his father, the Dagda, 139;
steals Etain from Mider, 147;
helps Diarmait and Grainne, 217, 218, 221;
matches his pigs against the Fenians, 213-214.
Anicetus, Sol Apollo, a Romano-British god, 275.
Animals, sacred, 406, 416, 417;
sacrifices of, 406, 411, 412, 413.
Anna, sister of Arthur, 323.
_Annals of the Four Masters_, 204.
Annwn, the British Otherworld, 254, 273, 278-282, 303, 308, 309, 318,
319, 321, 390, 391.
_Annwn, the Spoiling of_, a poem by Taliesin, 305, 306, 317, 366.
Anu, or Ana, a Gaelic goddess of prosperity and abundance, 50;
the “Paps of Ana”, 50;
still living in folklore as Aynia and Ainé, 245.
Aoibhinn, queen of the fairies of North Munster, 244.
Aoife, an Amazon defeated by Cuchulainn, 164, 176, 177.
Aphrodité, the British, 271, 388.
Apollo, the Gaelic, 62;
the British, 262;
a temple of, in Britain, 42, 325.
Apples, of the Garden of the Hesperides, 98, 99, 102;
in the Celtic Elysium, 98, 136.
Apple-tree of Ailenn, 189.
Aquitani, 22.
Aranon, son of Milé, 123.
Arawn, king of Annwn, 279, 280, 281, 306, 308, 309, 312, 315, 329, 357,
375.
Ardan, a son of Usnach, 192, 193, 196.
Ard Chein, 93.
Arddu, Black Stone of, 305.
Arês, 52.
_Argetlám_, 49, 78.
Arianrod, a British goddess, 261-265, 313, 317, 322, 364, 371;
her place in later legend taken by Arthur’s sister, 364.
Armagh, 136, 158.
Arnold, Matthew, 3, 16, 356.
Arran, Isle of, 60, 142, 415.
Art, the “Lonely”, king of Tara, 189, 202.
Artaius, Mercurius, a Gaulish god, 274.
Arthur, 6, 8, 14, 155, 202, 222, 246, 258, 259, 271, 273, 274, 276, 296,
304, 306, 311, 312-320, 322, 323, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330-343, 348,
349, 351-360, 362, 364-366, 368, 371, 374-376, 392, 407;
the mythical and the historical, 313, 314;
assumes the attributes of Gwydion, 316;
the Spoiling of Annwn by, 319-322;
becomes head of the British Pantheon, 312-313;
wins Olwen for Kulhwch, 343-353;
in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s _History_, 374, 375;
leads the Wild Hunt, 392.
_Arthurian Legend, Studies in the_, Professor Rhys’s, 148, 158, 255,
257, 258, 269, 272, 274, 278, 285, 313, 314, 316, 321, 322, 323, 326,
327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 358, 359, 360, 364, 367, 368, 369,
370, 383, 387, 389.
Artur, son of Nemed, 274.
Aryans, 21, 31, 32, 247;
common traditions of the, 32, 176, 189;
Aryan languages, 21.
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