[374] Loth, ii. 296. [375] Skene, i. 299, 531. [376] See p. 224, _infra_. [377] Guest, iii. 255; Morris, _Celtic Remains_, 231. [378] _HL_ 283 _f_. See also Grimm, _Teut. Myth._ i. 131. [379] Loth, i. 240. [380] Stokes, _US_ 34. [381] _Myvyrian Archæol._ i. 168; Skene, i. 275, 278 f.; Loth, ii. 259. [382] See my _Childhood of Fiction_, 127. Llew's vulnerability does not depend on the discovery of his separable soul, as is usual. The earliest form of this _Märchen_ is the Egyptian story of the Two Brothers, and that of Samson and Delilah is another old form of it. [383] Skene, i. 314, ii. 342. [384] _HL_ 408; _RC_ x. 490. [385] _HL_ 237, 319, 398, 408. [386] _HL_ 384. [387] _HL_ 474, 424. [388] Loth, ii. 231. [389] Loth, i. 240. [390] Skene, i, 286-287. [391] Loth, ii. 263. [392] Skene, ii. 159; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 157; Guest, iii. 255. [393] Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 161, 566. [394] Skene, i. 282, 288, 310, 543, ii. 145; Loth, i. 135; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 387. [395] Loth, i. 27 f.; Guest, iii. 7 f. [396] Rhiannon is daughter of Heveidd Hen or "the Ancient," probably an old divinity. [397] In the _Mabinogi_ and in Fionn tales a mysterious hand snatches away newly-born children. Cf. _ZCP_ i. 153. [398] Anwyl, _ZCP_ i. 288. [399] Loth, ii. 247. [400] Skene, i. 264. [401] Ibid. i. 276. [402] Ibid. i. 310. [403] Loth, i. 166. [404] _Hist. Brit._ ii. 11, iii. 1, 20, iv. 3. [405] Cf. Anwyl, _ZCP_ i. 287. [406] Skene, i. 431; Loth, ii. 278. Some phrases seem to connect Beli with the sea--the waves are his cattle, the brine his liquor. [407] Loth, ii. 209, 249, 260, 283. [408] Geoffrey, _Brit. Hist._ iv. 3. 4. [409] Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 125 f.; Loth, i. 265; MacBain, _CM_ ix. 66. [410] See Loth, i. 269; and Skene, i. 293. [411] Loth, i. 173 f. [412] Loth, ii. 256, 274. [413] Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 606. Cf. the Breton fairies, the _Korr_ and _Korrigan_. [414] Geoffrey, iii. 20. [415] Loth, i. 253-254; Skene, i. 293. [416] Guest, iii. 323. [417] Ibid. 325. [418] Loth, i. 253, ii. 297. [419] See p. 353, _infra_.; Skene, i. 532. [420] Anwyl, _ZCP_ i. 293. [421] Guest, iii. 356 f. [422] Skene, i. 275, 296. [423] Ibid. i. 498, 500. [424] See p. 382, _infra_. [425] _Mon. Hist. Brit._ i. 698, ii.; Thomas, _Revue de l'hist. des Religions_, xxxviii. 339. [426] Skene, i. 263, 274-276, 278, 281-282, 286-287. His "chair" bestows immortal youth and freedom from sickness. [427] Skene, i. 264, 376 f., 309, 532. See p. 356, _infra_. [428] See pp. 350-1, _infra_. Fionn and Taliesin are examples of the _Märchen_ formula of a hero expelled and brought back to honour, Nutt-Meyer, ii. 88. [429] Loth, i. 209, ii. 238; Skene, ii. 459. [430] Nennius, ch. 50, 79. [431] Anwyl, _ZCP_ i. 293. [432] Geoffrey, viii. 9-xi. 3. [433] Nutt-Meyer, ii. 22 f. [434] See p. 381, _infra_. [435] Loth, ii. 232, 245. [436] Rh[^y]s, _AL_, 39 f. Others derive the name from _arto-s_, "bear." MacBain, 357. [437] Loth. ii. 247; Skene, ii. 459.