Dagda, the, Gaelic god of the Earth, 54, 78, 79, 87, 98, 107-109, 116, 117, 122, 132, 135, 136, 138-141, 156, 157, 211, 213, 228, 230, 240, 243, 269, 346, 366;
his dress, arms, and harp, 54;
his porridge-feast, 108;
is cheated by his son Angus, 139;
resigns the kingship of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 140;
his last appearance, 157.
Daire of Cualgne, owner of the Brown Bull, 165.
Dalân, druid of Eochaid Airem, 392.
Danes, the, 230.
Danu, the mother of the Gaelic gods, the same as Anu, q.v., 44, 50, 51, 70, 245, 252, 407.
Dart, river, 414.
Dartmoor, 392.
Darvha, Lake, 143-145.
Deaf Valley, the, 180.
Dechtiré, mother of Cuchulainn, 156, 159, 160, 181.
Dé Danann, see Tuatha Dé Danann.
Dee, river, 413.
Deimne, the first name of Finn, 210.
Deirdre, 190-200;
Deirdre’s Farewell to Alba, 194-195;
Deirdre’s Lament over the Sons of Usnach, 199-200.
Demetia, Roman province of, 273, 278.
Demetrius, an early traveller in Britain, 326.
“Demon of the air”, Aeife changed into a, 145.
Derivla, a sacred well in the island of Inniskea, 415.
Desmond, fourth Earl of, nicknamed “the Magician”, 245.
“Destiny, laying a”, a Celtic custom, 262-265, 340.
Devon, 312, 392.
Devwy, the dales of, 320.
Dialogue of the Elders, the, 205, 222, 404;
Dialogues of Patrick and Ossian, 226-227.
Diancecht, the Gaelic god of medicine, 61, 62, 78, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 90, 110, 141, 232, 269;
makes a silver hand for Nuada, 78;
kills his son Miach, 81-82;
presides over the “Spring of Health”, 110;
prescriptions of Diancecht, 232.
Diarmait O’Duibhne, the Fenian Adonis, 209, 212, 215-221, 315.
Dinadan, Sir, 328.
Dinas Dinllev, 264.
Dinas Emrys, 324, 381.
Dingwall, Registers of the Presbytery of, 412.
Dinnsenchus, 38, 40, 132, 154.
Dio Cassius, 387.
Diodorus Siculus, 41, 42, 325.
Dionysus, rites of, 410.
Dis Pater, 51, 120, 252, 383.
Dissull the Giant, 348-349.
Diwrnach the Gael, the cauldron of, 346, 349.
Dobhar, king of Sicily, 96, 98, 102, 103.
Doctrine of the transmigration of souls, 36, 37.
Domnann, Fir, i.e. men of Domnu. See Fir Domnann.
Domnu, a goddess, mother of the Fomors, 48, 70, 112;
meaning of the name, 48;
gods of Domnu, 48, 70;
men of Domnu, 70.
Dôn, the British equivalent of the Gaelic Danu, 44, 252, 260, 268, 269, 273, 295, 308, 310, 316;
euhemerized into a king of Dublin, 372-373.
Donn, son of Milé, 126-131, 246.
“Donn’s House”, 246.
Dormarth, the hound of Gwyn son of Nudd, 257.
Dowth, 137-138.
Dragon, Red, of Britain, 378;
White, of the Saxons, 378.
“Dragon-mouth”, a lake called, 141.
Dream of Rhonabwy, the, 260, 312, 337, 338.
Drogheda, 137.
Drowes, river, 110.
Drudwyn, the whelp of Greid the son of Eri, 347.
Druidism, the religion of the Celts, 35, 43;
possibly non-Aryan in origin, 36;
in Gaul, 34;
derived from Britain, 35;
suppressed by the Romans, 399, 400.
Druids, 18, 33-37, 84, 111, 115, 151, 179, 180, 182, 188, 202, 399-401, 411, 412, 417;
origin of the name, 33;
in Gaul, 34;
in Britain, 35;
human sacrifices of the druids, 37, 412;
the druids of Brude, king of the Picts, 401.
Drumcain, an old name for Tara, 126.
Dublin, 66, 372.
Duke of the Britains, the, 313.
Dulachan, 247, 248.
Dul-dauna, the, 237.
Dun Cow, Book of the. See Cow.
Dundalk, 177.
Dundealgan, 177, 181, 188, 189.
Dún Scaith, 175-176.
Dux Britanniarum. See Duke of the Britains.
Dwynwen, Saint, 388.
Dyfan, Saint, 386.
Dyfed, or Demetia, a province of South Wales, 273, 278, 279, 281, 282, 286, 298-301, 303, 304, 309, 310, 394.
Dylan, a British god, 261, 262, 322, 335, 360, 364, 371.
Eagle, of Gwern Abwy, 350;
Lleu changed into an, 266-268.
Earl Gerald, 245.
Easal, king of the Golden Pillars, 96, 103.
Eber, son of Milé, 129-131, 146, 153.
Eber Scot, 120.
Eboracum, Roman name of York, 275.
Edeyrn, son of Nudd, 260.
Edinburgh, the Advocates’ Library at, 11.
Eel, the Morrígú takes the shape of an, 169;
transformation of the rival swineherds into eels, 165.
Egypt, 120.
Eigen, the first female saint in Britain, 386.
Eildon Hills, Arthur living beneath the, 335.
Elaine, 362.
Elathan, a king of the Fomors, 49, 50, 78, 83, 90, 116, 269.
Elayne, 358.
Elberich, 392.
Elders, Dialogue of the. See Dialogue.
Elen Lwyddawg, wife of Myrddin, 323, 362.
Eleutherius, Pope, 386.
Ellylion, the Welsh elves, 393.
Elton’s Origins of English History, 6, 8, 25, 26, 70, 228, 327, 413.
Elves, 393.
Elysium, Celtic. See Other World, Celtic.
Emain Macha, the capital of ancient Ulster, 28, 29, 158, 160, 161, 162, 164, 173, 174, 179, 180, 183, 188, 192, 194, 196, 200, 201, 204.
Emer, wife of Cuchulainn, 162, 164, 177, 184-188.
Emer, the Wooing of, an old Irish saga, 28, 29, 37, 184.
Emperor, a title given in Welsh legend to Arthur, 314, 338.
Emrys, a title of Myrddin, 324, 329, 360, 369.
Englishmen, Celtic strain in, 3.
“Entertaining of the Noble Head”, the, 296.
Eochaid, son of Erc, king of the Fir Bolgs, 69, 73, 74, 75.
Eochaid Airem, see Airem.
Eochaid O’Flynn, an Irish poet, 231.
Erc, king of Tara, 179, 182, 183.
Eremon, son of Milé, and first king of Ireland, 40, 129, 130, 131, 132, 146, 153, 154.
Erin, 97, 98, 99, 102, 104, 126, 193, 225, 231;
meaning of the word, 126.
Eriu, a goddess representing Ireland, 125, 126, 128, 129.
Eros, the Gaelic, 56, 140.
See Angus.
Essyllt, wife of March, or Mark. See Iseult.
Etain, wife of Mider, 57, 139, 147-152, 154, 224, 331-333.
Etair, a vassal of King Conchobar, 147.
Etal Ambuel, father of Caer, 141.
Etan, wife of Ogma, 62, 87, 239.
Ethnea, a name of Ethniu in modern folklore, 238.
Ethniu, daughter of Balor, 62, 79, 84, 90, 269, 371.
Ethnology in Folklore, Mr. G. L. Gomme’s, 35, 69, 412, 413, 414, 416.
Etirun, “an idol of the Britons”, 294.
Etive, Loch, 193.
Etruscans, the, 20; Etruscan mythology in modern Italian folklore, 403.
Ettard, 358.
Ettarre, Pelleas and, Tennyson’s idyll of, 358.
Euhemerism of Gaelic gods, 227-230;
of British gods, 372-389.
Euskarian race, 19.
Evelake, King, 359.
Evnissyen, son of Penardun, 290, 292, 293.
Failinis, the hound of the king of Ioruaidhé, 96, 97, 104.
Fairie Queene, Spenser’s, 7, 389.
Fairies, the, 4, 137, 242-248, 389-393, 403, 404, 409, 418;
the old gods are remembered as “fairies”, 243-248, 389-393;
two varieties of fairy in folklore, 403;
Irish and Welsh fairies identical in nature, 404;
king of the Irish fairies, 136;
king of the Welsh fairies, 392;
size of the fairies, 404;
fairy money, 377;
fairy food, 391;
the “fairy hills”, 135-139, 394.
Fal, the stone of. See Stone of Destiny.
“Falcon of May”, 369;
“Falcon of Summer”, 369.
Falga, Isle of, 57, 175.
Falias, a city of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 71, 72.
Fand, wife of Manannán son of Lêr, 186-188, 202.
Faraday, Miss, her translation of the Táin Bó Chuailgné, 164.
Fata Morgana, 395.
Fate of the Children of Lêr, 142-146;
of the Sons of Tuirenn, 90-105;
of the Sons of Usnach, 190-200.
Fea, a war-goddess, wife of Nuada, 52.
“Feast of Age”, Manannán’s, 61, 98, 143.
Feast of Lugh, see Lugnassad.
Feast of St. John, 409.
Fec’s Pool, on the Boyne, 210.
Fedlimid, vassal to King Conchobar, 190.
Fenians, the, 11, 17, 155, 201, 203-209, 211-215, 217-219, 220-223, 225, 226, 314, 315;
real or mythical, 203-205;
origin of, 206;
duties of, 206;
accomplishments of, 207;
chief heroes of, 207-209;
destruction of, at the battle of Gabhra, 222;
stories of, 209-226;
the Fenian sagas possibly non-Aryan, 70.
Fenius Farsa, 120.
Ferdiad, a warrior slain by Cuchulainn, 172, 173, 184.
Fergus, son of Finn, 208.
Fergus, son of Roy, an Ulster hero, 14, 166, 167, 170, 171, 175, 192-196, 198, 200.
Fergusson, Dr. James, 76, 114, 137, 138.
Festivals, Celtic solar or agricultural, 405-412.
Ffordd Elen, 324.
Fiacha, son of Conchobar, 197, 198.
Fiachadh, king of Ireland, 206.
Fiachra, son of Lêr, 143.
Fianchuivé, submarine island of, 97, 104.
Fianna Eirinn, see Fenians.
Figol, son of Mamos, druid of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 90.
Findabair, daughter of Medb, 168.
Findias, a city of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 71, 72.
Finn mac Coul (Cumhail), 4, 11, 16, 37, 146, 155, 201, 203, 204, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210-218, 220-222, 224, 226, 246, 254, 274, 314, 315;
his upbringing and boy-feats, 209-210;
reorganizes the Fenians, 211;
is killed at the Ford of Brea, 222;
is reborn as Mongan, an Ulster chief, 37;
is he historical or mythical, 204;
parallels between Finn and Arthur, 314-315.
Finn mac Gorman, compiler of the Book of Leinster, 10.
Finn the Seer, 210.
Finola, daughter of Lêr, 143.
Finvarra, king of the Irish fairies, 243, 244, 405.
Fiona Macleod, Miss, 241.
Fionn, see Finn.
Fionnbharr, the sídh of Meadha assigned to, 136;
his appearance in the Fenian sagas, 212;
becomes fairy king of Ireland, 243.
Fir Bolgs, an Iberian tribe, 68-70, 72-78, 114, 125, 229, 230, 407.
Fir Domnann, an Iberian tribe, 68-70, 76, 172.
Fir Gaillion, an Iberian tribe, 68-70, 76.
Fish, sacred, 416.
Fly, Etain changed into a, 147;
Lugh takes the form of a, 159;
a sacred, 416.
Folklore, Ethnology in. See Ethnology.
Folk-tales, Irish, 233-240; Welsh, 371.
Fomors, Gaelic deities of Death, Darkness, and the Sea, 11, 48-50, 67, 70, 76, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 98, 107-117, 120, 122, 157, 205, 225, 229, 230, 252, 269, 274, 327, 406;
meaning of the name, 48;
their war with the Tuatha Dé Danann, 107-117;
are the Lochlannach in the Fenian sagas, 205.
Forgall the Wily, father of Emer, 162, 163, 164, 184.
Fotla, a goddess representing Ireland, 125;
an ancient name of Ireland, 126.
“Four Ancient Books of Wales”, the, 11, 15.
See also Skene.
“Four Branches of the Mabinogi”, the, 14, 15, 251, 278, 289, 312, 355.
“Four-cornered castle”, the, 366.
Frazer’s Golden Bough, 33.
“Frivolous Battles of Britain, The Three”, 334.
Frogs, sacred, 416.
Fury, Great, and Little Fury, two swords of Manannán, 60, 217.