Caesar: _De Bello Gallico_, Book VI, chaps. XIII, XIV. But for a full exposition of what is known of the Druids the reader is referred to M. d’Arbois de Jubainville’s _Introduction à l’Étude de la Littérature Celtique_, Vol. I of his _Cours de Littérature Celtique_. Footnote 35: Caesar: _De Bello Gallico_, Book VI, chap. XIII. Footnote 36: Pliny: _Natural History_, XXX. Footnote 37: See chap. XII, _The Irish Iliad_. Footnote 38: Rhys: _Celtic Britain_, chap. II. See also Gomme: _Ethnology in Folk-lore_, pp. 58-62; _Village Community_, p. 104. Footnote 39: Abundant evidence of this is contained in Pausanias’ _Description of Greece_. Footnote 40: Caesar: _De Bello Gallico_, Book VI, chap. XIV. Footnote 41: The _Wooing of Emer_. Footnote 42: It is contained in the Book of the Dun Cow, and has been translated or commented upon by Eugene O’Curry (_Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish_), De Jubainville (_Cycle Mythologique Irlandais_), and Nutt (_Voyage of Bran_). Footnote 43: Caesar: _De Bello Gallico_, Book VI, chap. XVI. Footnote 44: The following translation was made by Dr. Kuno Meyer, and appears as Appendix B to Nutt’s _Voyage of Bran_. Three verses, here omitted, will be found later as a note to chap. XII—“The Irish Iliad”. Footnote 45: The first King of the Milesians. The name is more usually spelt Eremon. Footnote 46: The Rennes _Dinnsenchus_ has been translated by Dr. Whitley Stokes in Vol. XVI of the _Revue Celtique_. Footnote 47: Told in the Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick, a fifteenth-century combination of three very ancient Gaelic MSS. Footnote 48: The _Hibbert Lectures_ for 1886. Lecture II—“The Zeus of the Insular Celts”. Footnote 49: Pronounced _Baltinna_. Footnote 50: _Diodorus Siculus_: Book II, chap. III. Footnote 51: Pronounced _Sowin_. Footnote 52: It has been suggested that this title is an attempt to reproduce the ancient British word for “bards”. Footnote 53: _Diodorus Siculus_: Book II, chap. III. Footnote 54: _Hibbert Lectures_, 1886. Lecture I—“The Gaulish Pantheon”. Footnote 55: See Rhys: _Lectures on Welsh Philology_, pp. 426, 552, 653. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE GAELIC GODS AND THEIR STORIES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER V THE GODS OF THE GAELS