Aberffraw, marriage of Branwen at, 289.
Abergeleu, sacred well at, 415.
Achill Island, folk-tales preserved at, 233.
Achilles, the Irish, 158.
Achren, battle of, 305, 306;
castle of, 320.
Acrisius, 236.
Adamnan’s Life of Saint Columba, 401, 417.
Advocates’ Library at Edinburgh, 11, 190.
Aebh, wife of Lêr, 142.
Aed, son of Lêr, 143.
Aedh, son of Miodhchaoin, 105.
Aeife, wife of Lêr, 142, 143, 144.
Aerfon, a title of the river Dee, 413.
Æs Sídhe, the “folk of the mounds”, the gods or fairies, 137, 168.
Africa, 19, 120, 274, 324.
Aganippus, king of the Franks, 382, 383.
Agriculture god of, British, 261;
a Gaulish, 274.
Ailbhe, foster-daughter of Bodb the Red, 142.
Aileach, grave of Nuada at, 122, 157.
Ailill, king of Connaught, 147, 154, 164, 165, 175, 179, 200.
Ailinn, love-story of, 188, 189.
Ailioll of Arran, 142.
Ainé, queen of the fairies of South Munster, 244-246.
Ainle, one of the sons of Usnach, 192, 193, 196.
Airceltrai, the sídh of Ogma, 136, 157.
Airem, Eochaid, high king of Ireland, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 331, 332.
Airem, meaning of the word, 149, 333.
Airmid, daughter of Diancecht, 80, 81, 82, 110.
Alator, a war-god worshipped in Britain, 275.
Alaw, river in Anglesey, 294, 295.
Alba, 97, 104, 163, 178, 192, 193, 196, 382;
Deirdre’s farewell to, 194-195.
Albania, a name for Alba, 382.
Ale of Goibniu, 61.
Allobroges, 384, 385.
Amaethon, son of Dôn, British god of Agriculture, 261, 305, 308, 313, 316, 345;
fights against Brân in the battle of Achren, 305-308;
assists Kulhwch to win Olwen, 345.
Amergin, druid of the Milesians, 123-130.
Amesbury, “castle” of, 29.
Amlwch, stream of, 295.
Ana, see Anu.
Ancient Britons, who were the, 18-23.
Aneurin, a sixth-century British bard, 11, 295, 372.
Aneurin, the Book of, 11.
Anglesey, island of, 289, 294, 322, 388, 400.
Anglo-Saxon, our descent not entirely, 3.
Anguish, Anguissance, king of Ireland, 357.
Angus, Gaelic god of love and beauty, 56, 79, 80, 117, 136, 139-142, 147, 156, 157, 205, 211-214, 217, 218, 221, 240;
his attributes, 56;
his wooing of Caer, 140-142;
cheats his father, the Dagda, 139;
steals Etain from Mider, 147;
helps Diarmait and Grainne, 217, 218, 221;
matches his pigs against the Fenians, 213-214.
Anicetus, Sol Apollo, a Romano-British god, 275.
Animals, sacred, 406, 416, 417;
sacrifices of, 406, 411, 412, 413.
Anna, sister of Arthur, 323.
Annals of the Four Masters, 204.
Annwn, the British Otherworld, 254, 273, 278-282, 303, 308, 309, 318, 319, 321, 390, 391.
Annwn, the Spoiling of, a poem by Taliesin, 305, 306, 317, 366.
Anu, or Ana, a Gaelic goddess of prosperity and abundance, 50;
the “Paps of Ana”, 50;
still living in folklore as Aynia and Ainé, 245.
Aoibhinn, queen of the fairies of North Munster, 244.
Aoife, an Amazon defeated by Cuchulainn, 164, 176, 177.
Aphrodité, the British, 271, 388.
Apollo, the Gaelic, 62;
the British, 262;
a temple of, in Britain, 42, 325.
Apples, of the Garden of the Hesperides, 98, 99, 102;
in the Celtic Elysium, 98, 136.
Apple-tree of Ailenn, 189.
Aquitani, 22.
Aranon, son of Milé, 123.
Arawn, king of Annwn, 279, 280, 281, 306, 308, 309, 312, 315, 329, 357, 375.
Ardan, a son of Usnach, 192, 193, 196.
Ard Chein, 93.
Arddu, Black Stone of, 305.
Arês, 52.
Argetlám, 49, 78.
Arianrod, a British goddess, 261-265, 313, 317, 322, 364, 371;
her place in later legend taken by Arthur’s sister, 364.
Armagh, 136, 158.
Arnold, Matthew, 3, 16, 356.
Arran, Isle of, 60, 142, 415.
Art, the “Lonely”, king of Tara, 189, 202.
Artaius, Mercurius, a Gaulish god, 274.
Arthur, 6, 8, 14, 155, 202, 222, 246, 258, 259, 271, 273, 274, 276, 296, 304, 306, 311, 312-320, 322, 323, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330-343, 348, 349, 351-360, 362, 364-366, 368, 371, 374-376, 392, 407;
the mythical and the historical, 313, 314;
assumes the attributes of Gwydion, 316;
the Spoiling of Annwn by, 319-322;
becomes head of the British Pantheon, 312-313;
wins Olwen for Kulhwch, 343-353;
in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History, 374, 375;
leads the Wild Hunt, 392.
Arthurian Legend, Studies in the, Professor Rhys’s, 148, 158, 255, 257, 258, 269, 272, 274, 278, 285, 313, 314, 316, 321, 322, 323, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 358, 359, 360, 364, 367, 368, 369, 370, 383, 387, 389.
Artur, son of Nemed, 274.
Aryans, 21, 31, 32, 247;
common traditions of the, 32, 176, 189;
Aryan languages, 21.
Astarte, worshipped at Corbridge, 275.
Astolat, 362.
Athens, 153.
Athlone, 175, 216.
Augusel, a king of Scotland, 375.
Aurelius, a British king, 325.
Avallach, see Avallon.
Avallon, a British god of the Underworld, 329, 359;
Isle of, 374, and see Avilion.
Avebury, the “castle” of, 29.
Avilion, 133, 315, 329, 332, 334, 335, 390, 394.
Aynia, a fairy queen of Ulster, 245.
Babylon, 178.
Badb, a Gaelic war-goddess, 52, 53, 72, 117, 119, 245;
the name often used generically, 53;
description of a, 53.
“Badger in the bag”, the game of, 285, 303.
Badon, battle of, 338.
Baile, love-story of, 188-189.
Baile’s Strand, 186, 188.
Bajocassus, Temple of the sun-god Belinus at, 276.
Bala lake, 265.
Balan, 276, 357, 364.
Balder, 33.
Balgatan, a mountain near Cong, 73.
Balin, 276, 357, 358, 364.
Ballymagauran, village of, 38.
Ballymote, Book of, 10, 38, 123, 138, 229, 231.
Ballysadare, 75.
Balor, a king of the Fomors, 48-49, 50, 79, 83, 84, 90, 112, 113, 120, 233-239, 269, 324, 341, 345, 371;
his evil eye, 49;
kills Nuada and Macha, 112;
is blinded by Lugh, 112;
tales of, in modern folklore, 233-239.
“Balor’s Hill”, 69, 90.
Ban, king of Benwyk, 356, 360, 362.
Banba, a goddess representing Ireland, 125;
an ancient name of Ireland, 126, 153.
Banshee, meaning of the word, 137.
Baoisgne, Clann, 209, 217.
Bards, 32, 42.
Bardsey Island, 326.
Barrow, river, how it got its name, 62.
Barrule, South, 242.
Barry, the, 246.
Basque race, 19.
Bath, 228, 275, 276, 338, 381.
Bathurst’s Roman Antiquities in Lydney Park, 254.
Battle of Achren, 305;
of Badon, 338;
of Camlan, 222, 315, 334, 337, 375, 376;
of Clontarf, 53;
of Gabhra, 222, 223, 225, 315;
of Mag Rath, 52;
of Moytura Northern, 107-117, 407;
of Moytura Southern, 72-75;
of the Trees, 123, 305-308.
Bayeux, temple of Belinus at, 276.
Bean, curious passage relating to the, 306, 307.
Becuma of the Fair Skin, 202.
Bedivere, Sir, 6.
Bedwini, Arthur’s bishop, 337.
Bedwyr, a follower of Arthur, 343, 344, 349.
Belacatudor, a war-god worshipped in Britain, 275.
Belgæ, 23, 76.
Beli, a British god, 120, 252, 260, 268, 295, 313, 335-376.
Belinus, a Celtic sun-god, 276, 358, 364;
as a king of Britain, 276, 384, 385.
Belisama, the Latin name of the Ribble, 413.
Beltaine, the Gaelic May-day, 41, 65, 287, 406, 408, 409, 410.
Berber race, 19.
Beth, an Iberian god, 64.
Bettws-y-coed, 7.
Beuno, Saint, sacrifices of cattle to, 413.
Big-Knife, Osla, 352, 353.
Bilé, father of the Gaelic gods and men, 51, 65, 120, 121, 122, 252.
Billingsgate, origin of name, 385.
Birds, of Rhiannon, the, 273, 294, 296;
Dechtiré and her maidens changed into, 160.
Black Book of Caermarthen, the, 11, 255, 311, 312, 335.
Bladud, mythical founder of Bath, 381.
Blathnat, daughter of Mider, 55, 179.
Bliant, Castle, 358.
Blodeuwedd, wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes, 265, 266, 268.
Blood-fines among the Celts, 30;
blood-fine paid for Cian, 94-97.
Boann, wife of the Dagda, 55, 139, 141.
Boar, wild, of Bengulben, 221;
the Boar Trwyth, 347-353.
Bodb the Red, son of the Dagda, 60, 133, 140, 141-145, 157, 205, 208;
is made king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 140;
his swineherd, 164;
marries his daughter Sadb to Finn, 208.
Bogles, 393, 403, 405.
Bonfires in Celtic ritual, 409-412.
Bordeaux, Sir Huon of, 7.
Boreadæ, 42.
Borrach, 193, 195, 200.
Bors, king of Gaul, 360.
Bors, Sir, 368, 369.
Boyne, river, 55, 56, 129, 136, 137, 158, 210, 213, 230.
Brahmans, 32.
Bran, son of Febal, an Irish king, 134, 135, 224.
Bran, Finn’s favourite hound, 213.
Brân, British god of the Underworld, 258, 271-272, 276, 289-294, 296, 306, 308, 313, 328, 329, 331, 338, 356, 357, 360, 364, 366, 384, 386, 387, 389, 394;
fights the battle of Achren, 306;
becomes the “Wonderful Head”, 296;
in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History, 384, 385;
in the Morte Darthur, 356, 357;
introduces Christianity into Britain, 386.
Brandegore, King, 272, 356.
Brandegoris, King, 356.
Brandel, Brandiles, Sir, 356.
Branwen, British goddess of love, 271, 289-294, 387.
Brazil, 133.
Brea, ford of, Finn killed at the, 222.
Breasal’s Island, 133.
Brécilien, Forest of, 361.
Bregon, 121.
Brennius, a mythical British king, 5, 276, 384, 385.
Brennus, 385.
Bress, son of Elathan, a Fomor, 50, 78-80, 82, 83, 90, 108-111, 115-116, 269;
his beauty, 50;
marries Brigit, and is made king over the Tuatha Dé Danann, 78;
is forced to abdicate, 83;
makes war on the Tuatha Dé Danann, 83;
is defeated and captured, 115-116.
Brian, son of Tuirenn, 90, 91, 92, 94, 99-102, 103, 105, 106.
Briareus, 326.
“Bridge of the Cliff”, the, 163.
Bridget, Saint, 7, 56, 228.
Brigantes, a North British tribe, 277.
Brigantia, a British Minerva, 277.
Brigindo, a Gaulish goddess, 277.
Brigit, Gaelic goddess of fire, poetry, and the hearth, 56, 78, 109, 110, 228, 269, 277, 387;
is married to Bress, 78;
is canonized as Saint Bridget, 228, 387.
Bri Leith, the sídh of Mider, 136, 148, 152, 332.
Brindled ox, the, 320.
Britain, ancient names of, 292, 323.
British Goblins, Mr. Wirt Sikes’, 389, 393, 415.
Britons, ancient, who were the, 18-23.
Britonum, Historia. See Historia, Geoffrey, Nennius.
Brittany, 24.
Briun, son of Bethar, 113.
Brownies, 248, 393, 403.
Brude, king of the Picts, 401.
Brugh-na-boyne, 136, 139, 160, 213, 214.
Brutus, 121, 374.
Brythons, 21, 22, 23, 24, 35.
Buarainech, father of Balor, 48.
Buinne, the Ruthless Red, son of Fergus, 193, 196, 197.
Bull, the Brown, of Cualgne, 164, 165, 168, 175;
the White-horned, of Connaught, 165, 175.
Bwbachod, 393.