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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Elysium, Greek, 49 _n._, 50, 58, 59, 63;
Chaldæan, 69;
Avestan, 72, 85;
Egyptian, 89;
Irish, 49 _n._, 121-6, 128-9, 135, 137, 138, 140-4, 146 _n._, 147;
aristocratic theory of, 70, 143, 227.
Emer, 128-9.
End of world anticipated by early Church, 100-1.
Enniskillen, derivation of name, 135 _n._
Enoch, in Paradise, 46, 85, 98, 157, 179, 205;
to reappear for final battle, 163;
Book of, date, 94;
cited by St. Jude, _ibid._;
general character, 95;
summary, 95 _sqq._;
purgatorial theory, 194;
whether known in Ireland, 192 _n._;
compared with Dante, 95;
cited, 183 _n._, 198, 199.
Eochaid Airem, 122, 127.
Eochaid Glas Corpre, 149.
Epicurean school, influence of, in first century, 91.
Er, Vision of, 56 _sqq._, 59.
Eratosthenes, 88.
Erenach, the Irish, 40.
Eridu, 70.
Erigena, see ‘Joannes Scotus E.’
Erik Saga, 131.
Esdras, Vision of, in O. T. Apocrypha, 97, 182 _n._, 215 _n._;
in N. T. Apocrypha, 98.
Etain, 122, 127.
Ethne, wife of Mider, 127;
E. Taebfada, 143.
Fabian, Bishop of Rome, 45.
Failbhe, Abbot of Iona, 8.
Fand, 128-9.
Félire Oengusa, 174, 205 _n._
Fercertue, 126 _n._
Fermoy, Book of, cited, 136 _n._, 157 _n._
Ferry to Hades, 67.
Fidelis, Irish traveller, 114.
Fiery circles in Paradise, 30, 187;
lakes, rivers, etc., of Otherworld, 36, 37, 96, 132, 133, 194;
wall, 43, 153, 187, 194, 202.
Filid, Irish literary order, 117.
Filippo Argenti, 169 _n._
Finnachta Fledach, Árd-Rí of Ireland, accession, 14;
relations with Adamnán, 13 _sqq._;
and Boruma tribute, 14 _sqq._;
mentioned in connection with emancipation of women, 45;
death, 17.
Finn cycle, 133.
Firghil, Irish bishop of Salzburg, 6 _n._, 115.
Fis, class of Irish romances, 120;
the Christian Fis, 165, 212;
_Fis Adamnáin_, etc., see ‘Adamnán,’ Etc.;
see also under ‘Vision.’
Fitzgerald, David, _Popular Tales of Ireland_, 153 _n._, 174 _n._
Fomorians, the, Chthonian powers, 121, 135 _n._
Food, miraculous, 126, 155-6, 208, 210.
Forgall Monach, 130.
Foucart, M. P., on the Greek mysteries, 52-5;
on the Isis cult, 89 _n._
Four Masters, the, cited, 18.
Fravashi, the, 86, 183.
Frederick II., Emperor, and Petrus Hibernicus, 6 _n._;
legend of disappearance of, 164 _n._
Friedel, Dr. V. H., joint editor of _La Vision de Tondale_, 212 _n._
Fursa, St., 166;
Visions of, 167 _sqq._
Gardner, Prof. P., on the Greek mysteries, 53 _n._, 54, 92 _n._;
on Greek sources of Christian eschatology, 92 _n._
Gelasius, 25.
Gilbert, Abbot of Louth, 234.
Giöll, Bridge of, 131.
Gisdubar, 69.
Good and evil, souls of mingled, fate of, 39, 72, 85, 112, 191, 201-2,
220-2.
Gorm and Bridge myth, 131.
Graal legend, parallels to Irish legends, 124 _n._, 131, 150, 154, 156,
184 _n._