Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Part 32

_y_, when long, is like _ee_; when short, like _u_ in but.

_ch_ and _c_ as in Gaelic.

_dd_ is like _th_ in breathe.

_f_ is like _v; ff_like English _f_.

The sound of _ll_ is perhaps better not attempted by the English reader.

It is a thickened _l_, something between _cl_ and _th_.

Vowels as in Gaelic, but note that there are strictly no diphthongs in Welsh, in combinations of vowels each is given its own sound.

A

ABRED. The innermost of three concentric circles representing the totality of being in the Cymric cosmogonythe stage of struggle and evolution, 333

ABUNDANCE. See Stone of Abundance

DA (ayda). 1. Dwarf of King Fergus mac Leda, 247.

2. Royal suitor for Vivionns hand; Vivionn slain by, 287

DUANS. Familiar with plating of copper and tin, 44

GIRA. Custom of the priestess of Earth at, in Acha, ere prophesying, 167

SUN. Umbrian deity, 86

SUS. Deity mentioned by Lucan, 86

AED THE FAIR (AED FINN) (aid). Chief sage of Ireland; author of Voyage of Maeldun, 331

AEI (ayee), PLAIN OF, where Brown Bull of Quelgny meets and slays Bull of Ailell, 225

AFRICAN ORIGIN. Primitive population of Great Britain and Ireland, evidence of language suggests, 78

AGE, IRON. The s.h.i.+p a well-recognised form of sepulchral enclosure in cemeteries of the, 76

AGNOMAN. Nemeds father, 98

AIDEEN. Wife of Oscar, 261; dies of grief after Oscars death, 261; buried on Ben Edar (Howth), 261, 262

AIFA (eefa). Princess of Land of Shadows; war made upon, by Skatha, 189; Cuchulain overcomes by a trick, 190; life spared conditionally by Cuchulain, 190; bears a son named Connla, 190

AILBACH (el-yach) Fortress in Co. Donegal, where Ith hears MacCuill and his brothers are arranging the division of the land, 132

AILILL (elyill), or AILELL.

1. Son of Laery, treacherously slain by his uncle Covac, 152.

2. Brother of Eochy; his desperate love for Etain, 158-160.

3. King of Connacht, 122; Angus Og seeks aid of, 122; Fergus seeks aid of, 202; a.s.sists in foray against province of Ulster, 203-251; White horned Bull of, slain by Brown Bull of Quelgny, 225; makes seven years peace with Ulster, 225; hound of mac Datho pursues chariot of, 244; slain by Conall, 245

AILILL EDGE-OF-BATTLE.

Of the sept of the Owens of Aran; father of Maeldun, slain by reavers from Leix, 310

AILILL OLUM (el-yill olum) King of Munster; ravishes Ain and is slain by her, 127

AIN.

A love-G.o.ddess, daughter of the Danaan Owel; Ailill Olum and Fitzgerald her lovers, 127; mother of Earl Gerald, 128; still wors.h.i.+pped on Midsummer Eve, 128; appears on a St. Johns Night, among girls on the Hill, 128

AINL.

Brother of Naisi, 198

ALEXANDER THE GREAT.

Counter-move of h.e.l.las against the East under, 22; compact with Celts referred to by Ptolemy Soter, 23

ALLEN, MR. ROMILLY.

On Celtic art, 29, 30

ALLEN, HILL OF.

In Kildare; Finns chief fortress, 266, 273

AMASIS I Human sacrifices abolished by, 86

AMATHAON.

Son of Don; and the ploughing task, 390

AMERGIN.

Milesian poet, son of Miled, husband of Skena, 133; his strange lay, sung when his foot first touched Irish soil, 134; his judgment, delivered as between the Danaans and Milesians, 135; chants incantations to land of Erin, 136; the Druid, gives judgment as to claims to sovranty of Eremon and Eber, 148; Ollav Fola compared with, 150

AMMIa.n.u.s MARCELLINUS.

Gauls described by, 42

AMORGIN.

Father of Conall of the Victories, 177

AMYNTAS II.

King of Macedon, defeated and exiled, 23

ANGLO-SAXON.

Waces French translation of Historia Regum Britani translated by Layamon into, 338

ANGUS.

A Danaan deity, 143.

See Angus Og

ANGUS OG (ANGUS THE YOUNG).

Son of the Dagda, Irish G.o.d of love, 121, 123; wooes and wins Caer, 121-123; Dermot of the Love spot bred up with, 123; Dermot of the Love spot revived by, 123; father of Maga, 181; Dermot and Grama rescued by magical devices of, 299; Dermots body borne away by, 303

ANKH, THE.

Found on Megalithic carvings, 77, 78; the symbol of vitality or resurrection, 78