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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Greece, visits to Otherworld, 49;
visions of Otherworld, 56 _sqq._;
Greece and Alexandria, 86 _sqq._;
intercourse with Egypt, 89 _n._;
philosophic schools under early Empire, 91;
influence on early Christian eschatology, 92 _n._;
Greek learning in Ireland, 115;
Greeks in Ireland, _ibid._;
traces in Irish tales, 151;
and see ‘Elysium,’ ‘Tartarus,’ ‘Mysteries,’ ‘Hades,’ ‘Plato,’
‘Plutarch,’ ‘Aristophanes.’
Gregory I., Pope and Saint;
vision of Stephen, 110;
of a soldier, 111;
of a Spanish monk, 112.
Guide to Hades, 182;
in _Book of Enoch_, 95;
in _Vision of Esdras_, 98;
in _Fis Adamnáin_, 29, 181-2, 195;
in Irish legends, 121, 130, 167, 170, 214;
in Continental legends, 230.
Hades, the Greek, 50;
Virgilian, 66;
Chaldæan, 70;
Christian, 92 _n._
Haemgils, 233.
Hara-berezaiti, Mount, 71 _n._
Harrowing of Hell legend, 101.
Healy, Dr., _Ireland’s Ancient Schools and Scholars_, 4 _n._
Heaven, described: in the _Book of Enoch_, 96;
in the _Fis Adamnáin_, 30 _sqq._, 183 _sqq._;
in Irish legends, 158, 174, 223, 234;
as a Christian Church, 34, 164, 184;
the Seven Heavens, 35, 83, 84, 192;
and see ‘Paradise.’
Hebrews, see ‘Jews.’
Hell, in the _Book of Enoch_, 95-6;
Greek ideas in Christian, 109;
_Apocalypse of Peter_, 105;
_Paul_, 106;
St. Gregory, 112;
_Fis Adamnáin_, 38 _sqq._, 196 _sqq._;
other Irish visions, 158, 170-1, 172-3, 209, 219 _sqq._, 233, 235;
Continental legends, 231, 239;
of Oriental religions, 226 _n._;
as mouth of a monster, 215, 216, 235, 239;
Northern and Southern conception contrasted, 200 _n._, 202, 228.
Hellenism, in Persia, 76 _sqq._;
Syria, 68;
Egypt, 87-9;
Jewish schools, 68, 86-7.
Helmet of Irish Árd-Rí, 32 _n._, 188.
Henry of Saltrey, 234.
Herakles, visit to Hades, 49.
Hermas, Shepherd of, 101 _sqq._;
anticipations of Dante, 103, 182 _n._
Hermits on islands, 154-7, 160, 191, 210, 211.
Hermödr and Bridge myth, 131.
Herodotus cited, 33 _n._, 87, 88 _n._, 151.
Hesiod, Elysium, 50 _n._;
æons, 79 _n._;
cited, 121 _n._
Hierarchies, nine celestial, 30, 185, 223-4.
Hilarius, Pope, reforms calendar, 9.
Homer, Elysium, 50;
island Paradise, 121;
_Odyssey_ cited, 152.
Horse-races of demons, 152.
Hull, Miss Eleanor, _Cuchullin Saga_, 130, 131.
Hyde, Dr. Douglas, _Literary History of Ireland_, 117 _n._, 128 _n._
Immanuel ben Salamone, 241 _n._
Imram, class of Irish romance, 120;
adopts Christian eschatology, 146, 157, 164;
Christian Imrama, 147, 150;
modern Imrama, 212;
of Bran, Maelduin, the Ui Corra, Snedgus and Mac Ríagla, St. Brendan,
Tadg Mac Céin; see ‘Bran,’ etc.
Indian mythology, parallels in, 29 _n._
Inferno, see ‘Dante.’
Initiation, see ‘Mysteries.’
Interpolations, Christian, in Irish heroic tales, 145-9.