An Irish precursor of Dante : $b a study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the eighth-century Irish saint Adamnán, with translation of the Irish text
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Birds, mystical, 32, 72, 73, 154-5, 163, 189;
as divine messengers, 72, 73;
as culture bringers, 72;
human souls in, 46, 160, 174 _n._, 189, 191;
singing the canonical hours, 32, 85, 179;
choirs of, in Paradise, 31, 157-8, 163, 174, 185, 189;
in island Elysium, 160.
Birr, Mórdáil of, 18.
Book of the Dead, Egyptian, 89 _n._
Boruma Tribute, instituted, 14;
remitted, 15 _sqq._;
treatises on, 14.
Bran, son of Febal, Voyage of, 122 _n._, 123 _sqq._, 146-8, 189.
Brandenburg, Marquis of, legend, 121.
Brenainn of Birr, St., 154.
Brendan, St., Voyage of, 147 _sqq._, 202 _n._, 207 _sqq._;
influence on European literature, 202, 207;
his island, belief in, 207 _n._
Bridge, in legends of the Otherworld, 38-9, 71, 111, 131, 132,
139, 178, 197-8, 215-17, 231, 239;
cognate traditions, 131-2.
Brudin Da Derga, story of, cited, 12 _n._
Brug na Boinne, Elysium in, 122, 189.
Brunetto Latini, reference to his _Tesoretto_, 121.
Bryce, Prof., on the Donation of Constantine, 45 _n._
Buan, mystical hazels of, 140, 155.
Budge, Dr. W., _Book of the Dead_, 89 _n._
Bundehesh cited, 72.
Burghcastle, monastery founded by St. Fursa, 166.
Cáin Adamnáin, see ‘Adamnán.’
Caldron, magic, 122-3, 141.
Calixtus II., Pope, and Carolingian Romances, 147 _n._
Callimachus, 88.
Carman, poem on Fair of, cited, 32, 115.
Carolingian Romances, 146 _n._
Castle, enchanted, Otherworld origin of, 150;
revolving, in romance of Peredur, 154.
Castor and Pollux, 49.
Cernunnos and Bran, 123 _n._
Cethlenn, 135 _n._
Chaldæa, eschatology of, 69, 70;
Hades, 70;
visits thereto, 69;
Elysium, 69;
multitudinous deities, 81-2;
no Rebirth doctrine, 80.
Charles, Rev. A. H., ed. of _Book of Enoch_, 95 _n._
Chastity ideal in Irish Elysium, 144, 147-8.
Chaucer cited, 143.
Chinvât Bridge, 71, 112.
Christ’s descent into Hades, 101.
Christian interpolations in Irish tales, 145-8;
ideas becoming predominant, 146-7.
Chthonian side of Irish myths, 121, 129, 130, 135 _n._, 136, 138-9.
Church, Paradise conceived as a, 34, 164, 184.
Cicero, _Somnium Scipionis_, 64;
approbation of the mysteries, 108.
Cinel Enda, 7.
City, celestial, 33, 35, 94.
Classical ideas in mediæval eschatology, 227.
Classification of departed spirits, 172, 198-9;
of penalties in the Otherworld, 40 _sqq._, 105, 199 _sqq._
Claudian, cited, 49.
Clement of Ireland, 6 _n._
Clovis II., 167.
Cockayne element in Irish Elysium, 122-3, 135, 137, 141, 190;
transition to higher conceptions, 144, 164-5, 171, 190.
Colm Cille, St., 8, 11, 18, 24;
visions of, 166;
privilege of order, 17;
Adamnán, _Life_ of, see ‘Adamnán.’
_Commedia_, see ‘Dante.’
Comyn, Michael, _Laoi Oisín ar dTír na n-Óg_, 133.
Conall Gulbán, 7.
Concobar, mediæval Irish king, 221.
Condla Coel Corrbacc, 149.