[467] _LL_ 125_a_. See my _Childhood of fiction_, ch. 14. [468] Miss Hull, lxxvi. [469] "Da Derga's Hostel," _RC_ xxii. 283; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 438. [470] _LL_ 68_a_; Rh[^y]s, 437; Ingcel the one-eyed has also many pupils (_RC_ xxii. 58). [471] Miss Hull, lxiii. [472] _RC_ viii. 49. [473] _LL_ 77_b_; Miss Hull, lxii. [474] Other Celtic heroes undergo this distortion, which resembles the Scandinavian warrior rage followed by languor, as in the case of Cúchulainn. [475] Miss Hull, p. lxvi. [476] Irish saints, standing neck deep in freezing water, made it hot. [477] _IT_ i. 268; D'Arbois, v. 103; Miss Hull, lxvi. [478] _HL_ 448. [479] See Meyer, _RC xi_. 435; Windisch, _IT_ i. 589, 740. Though _richis_ means "charcoal," it is also glossed "flame," hence it could only be glowing charcoal, without any idea of darkness. [480] _HL_ 458. [481] _IT_ i. 107. [482] _Arch. Rev._ i. 1 f.; _IT_ i. 213; see p. 381, _infra_. [483] See p. 164, _infra_. [484] Diod. Siculus, iv. 56. [485] _IT_ iii. 393. [486] _Les Celtes_, 58 f. Formerly M. D'Arbois identified Smertullos with Lug, ii. 217; Holder, i. 46, 262. For the incident of the beard, see Windisch, _Táin_, 308. [487] _IT_ iii. 395. [488] _IT_ i. 420. [489] _RC_ xxvii. 319 f. [490] _RC_ xviii. 256. [491] _Les Celtes_, 63; _RC_ xix. 246. [492] D'Arbois, _RC_ xx. 89. [493] D'Arbois, _RC_ xxvii. 321; _Les Celtes_, 65. [494] _Les Celtes_, 49; Cæsar, vi. 14. [495] In contradiction to this, M. D'Arbois elsewhere thinks that Druids from Britain may have taught the Cúchulainn legend in Gaul (_RC_ xxvii. 319). [496] See versions in _Book of the Dean of Lismore_; _CM_ xiii.; Campbell, _The Fians_, 6 f. [497] _CM_ xiii. 327, 514. The same story is told of Fionn, _ibid._ 512. See also ballad versions in Campbell, _LF_ 3 f. [498] See p. 212, _infra_. [499] A Galatian king was called Brogitaros, probably a form of _Brogitaruos_, "bull of the province," a title borne by Conchobar, _tarb in chóicid_ (_IT_ i. 72). This with the epithets applied to heroes in the _Triads_, "bull-phantom," "prince bull of combat" (Loth, ii. 232, 243), may be an appellative denoting great strength. [500] _IT_ ii. 241 f.; D'Arbois, _Les Druides_, 168. [501] Miss Hull, 58. [502] See p. 212, _infra_. [503] See p. 208, _infra_. [504] Fitzgerald, _RC_ vi. 254. [505] See p. 243, _infra_. CHAPTER VIII. THE FIONN SAGA.