[329] These incidents are found mainly in the story of Branwen, e.g. those of the cauldron, a frequent accessory in Irish tales; the regeneration of the warriors, also found in the story of Mag-tured, though no cauldron is used; the red-hot house, occurring also in _Mesca Ulad_; the description of Bran paralleled by that of MacCecht. [330] Anwyl, _ZCP_ i. 277, ii. 124, iii. 122. [331] Bp. of S. Davids, _Vestiges of the Gael in Gwynned_, 1851; Rh[^y]s, _TSC_ 1894-1895, 21. [332] Skene, i. 45; Meyer, _TSC_ 1895-1896, 55. [333] Cf. John, _The Mabinogion_, 1901, 19. Curoi appears as Kubert, and Conchobar as Knychur in _Kulhwych_ (Loth, i. 202). A poem of _Taliesin_ has for subject the death of Corroi, son of Dayry (Curoi mac Daire), Skene, i. 254. [334] Loth, _RC_ x. 356; John, _op. cit._ 19; Nutt, _Arch. Rev._ i. 331. [335] The giant Ysppadden in _Kulhwych_ resembles Balor, but has no evil eye. [336] Anwyl, _ZCP_ ii. 127-128, "The merging of the two legends [of Dôn and Taliesin] may have arisen through the fusion of Penllyn with Ardudwy and Arvon." [337] Professor Rh[^y]s thinks that the Llyr family may be pre-Celtic, _TSC_ 1894-1895, 29 f.; _CFL_ 552. [338] Loth, i. 97 f.; Lady Guest, iii. 143 f. [339] See Nutt, _Folk-lore Record_, v. 1 f. [340] Loth, i. 298, ii. 243-244; Geoffrey, _Hist. Brit._ ii. 11. [341] Loth, i. 224, 265, ii. 215, 244; Geoff. ii. 11. [342] Skene, i. 81; Rh[^y]s, _Academy_, Jan. 7, 1882. [343] _Triads_, Loth, ii. 293; Nutt, _Folk-lore Record_, v. 9. [344] _Hist. Brit._ ii. 11-14. [345] _AL_ 131. [346] Skene, i. 262. [347] See Nutt-Meyer, ii. 17. [348] Skene, i. 276. [349] Loth, i. 208, 280; see also i. 197, ii. 245, 294. [350] See Skene i. 355. The raven is rather the bird of prey come to devour Urien than his "attribute." [351] Skene, i. 298. [352] For these theories see Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 90_f_.; _AL_ ch. 11; _CFL_ 552. [353] See Ch. XXIV. [354] See p. 242. [355] Loth, i. 65, ii. 285. [356] _Hist. Brit._ iii. 1_f_. Geoffrey says that Billingsgate was called after Belinus, and that his ashes were preserved in the gate, a tradition recalling some connection of the god with the gate. [357] An early Caradawc saga may have become mingled with the story of Caractacus. [358] Rees, 77. [359] So Elton, 291. [360] _Folk-lore Record_, v. 29. [361] Lady Guest, iii. 134. [362] Dôn is sometimes held to be male, but she is distinctly called sister of Math (Loth, i. 134), and as the equivalent of Danu she must be female. [363] Loth, ii. 209. [364] See p. 60, _supra_, and Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 90_f_. [365] Lady Guest, iii. 255; Skene, i. 297, 350. [366] For this _Mabinogi_ see Loth, i. 117f.; Guest, iii. 189f. [367] Skene, i. 286. [368] Loth, ii. 229, 257; and for other references to Math, Skene, i. 281, 269, 299. [369] Skene, i. 296, 281. [370] Loth, ii. 297; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 276. [371] Skene, i. 264. [372] Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 270. Skene, i. 430, 537, gives a different meaning to _seon_. [373] Skene, i. 264.