Gabhra, battle of, 222, 223, 225, 315.
Gabius, a Roman consul, 385.
Gabriel Hounds, the, 392.
Gae bolg, Cuchulainn’s spear, 170, 173, 178.
Gaels, 68, 69, 70, 71, 76, 93, 108, 119, 124, 149, 183, 203, 204, 230, 357.
Gaiar, son of Manannán, 202.
Gaillion, Fir. See Fir Gaillion.
Galahad, Sir, 362, 368, 369.
Galan-mai, Welsh spring festival, 408.
Gan Ceanach, 247.
Garden of the Hesperides, the, 95, 98, 99.
Gargantua, Rabelais’, 386.
Gast Rhymri’s cubs, 347, 349.
Gaul, 22, 274, 276, 383, 384, 385.
Gauls, the, 22, 23, 119, 230.
Gavida, 238, 239.
Gavidjeen Go, 235.
Gawain, Sir, 360, 363, 364, 369, 375.
Geasa, taboos among the Irish Celts, 177, 195, 216.
Genii locorum, 43.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 9, 121, 251, 254, 259, 276, 323, 324, 330, 336, 372, 373-376, 381, 384.
George’s Hill, Saint, 29.
Geraint, 312, 387.
Gildas, a British writer, 400.
“Glamour, the Realm of”, an old name for Dyfed, 279.
Glamour put on Cuchulainn by Cathbad, 178;
by the daughters of Calatin, 179, 180;
put on the sons of Usnach, 198;
on Arianrod, 264, 265;
on Dyfed, 298.
Glass Castle, of the Fomors, 67;
a synonym for the other world, 320, 367.
Glastonbury, 260, 329.
Glastonbury Tor, 272, 390.
Glenn Faisi, 130.
Glora, Isle of, 144, 145, 146.
Glyn Cûch, 279, 281.
Gobhan Saer, the, 232, 235, 240.
Goibniu, Gaelic god of smithcraft, 61, 84, 86, 98, 109, 110, 141, 231, 232, 238, 239, 261, 371;
forges the weapons of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 61, 109;
kills Ruadan, 110;
his ale, 61;
survives in tradition as the Gobhan Saer, q.v.;
as a character in folk-tale, 232-240.
See Gavida and Gavidjeen Go.
Goidel, a mythical ancestor of the Irish, 120.
Goidels, the, 21, 22, 23, 24, 35.
Golden bough, the mistletoe the, 33.
Golden Pillars, king of the. See Easal.
Goll, 209, 211, 222.
Gomme, Mr. G. L., 20, 35, 69, 412, 413, 414, 416.
Gonorilla, daughter of Leir, 381, 382.
Gore, 357. See Gower.
Goreu, Arthur’s cousin, 317, 338.
Gorias, a city of the Tuatha Dé Danann, 71, 72, 97.
Govannan son of Dôn, British god of Smithcraft, 261, 313, 316, 345;
kills his nephew Dylan, 261;
assists Kulhwch, 345.
Gower regarded as part of the other world, 272, 356, 357, 373.
Grail, the Holy, 2, 7, 273, 357-359, 365-370.
Grainne, 209, 215-221, 315.
Graves of the Warriors, the Verses of the, 272, 311, 334.
Gray of Macha, Cuchulainn’s horse, 174, 181, 182, 183.
Greece, 1, 20, 68, 99, 100, 101, 155.
Greek mythology, ancient, 1, 2, 4;
modern, 403.
“Green Meadows of Enchantment”, the, 394.
Gregory, Lady, 159, 201.
Greid, the son of Eri, 347, 350.
Gresholm Island, 294, 356, 394.
Grianainech, the “sunny-faced”, an epithet of Ogma, 59.
Grianan Aileach, grave of Nuada at. See Aileach.
Gronw Pebyr, 265, 266, 268.
Guanius, Gwyn as a mythical king of the Huns, 375.
Guest, Lady Charlotte, 253, 255, 268, 278, 289, 295, 298, 308, 317, 337, 339, 340, 348, 350, 369, 377.
Guinevere, Arthur’s queen, 315, 334, 357, 359, 365, 375, 407.
Gunvasius, king of the Orkneys, 376.
Gurgiunt Brabtruc, king of Britain, 385.
Guyon, Sir, in Spenser’s Fairie Queene, 7, 389.
Gwalchaved, 369.
Gwalchmei, 323, 330, 334, 335, 338, 343, 360, 364, 368, 369, 375.
Gwales, island of, 294, 296, 356.
Gwarthegyd, son of Kaw, 337.
Gwawl, son of Clûd, Pwyll’s rival for Rhiannon, 284, 285, 303, 362, 380.
Gweddw, owner of a magic horse, 347.
Gweir, a form of the name Gwydion, q.v., 319, 321, 322.
Gwenbaus, Sir, 359.
Gwern, son of Matholwch and Branwen, 291, 292, 293.
Gwinas, Sir, 359.
Gwlgawd Gododin, the drinking-horn of, 346.
Gwragedd Annwn, 393.
Gwrhyr, a companion of Arthur, 343, 349, 350, 351.
Gwri of the Golden Hair, 287.
Gwrnach the Giant, 346, 348.
Gwyar, wife of Lludd, 323, 338, 369.
Gwyddneu Garanhir, his dialogue with Gwyn, 255-258;
his magic basket, 346.
Gwyddolwyn Gorr, the magic bottles of, 346.
Gwydion son of Dôn, the British Mercury, 260-268, 305, 306, 308-311, 316, 317, 322, 327, 330, 335, 358, 360, 364, 371, 372, 373, 377;
druid of the gods, 260;
father of the sun-god, 261;
fights the “Battle of the Trees”, 306;
is the British equivalent of the Teutonic Woden, 260;
his place taken in later myth by Arthur, 316.
Gwyl Awst, the Welsh August festival, 409.
Gwyllion, 393.
Gwyn son of Nudd, British god of the Other World, 7, 254-259, 272, 313, 315, 329, 332, 348, 359, 365, 371, 372, 376, 389-393, 405, 407;
attributes of, 255;
his dialogue with Gwyddneu Garanhir, 255-258;
contends with Gwyn for Lludd’s daughter Creudylad, 259;
is made warder of Hades, 254-255;
prominent in the Arthur legend, 359;
becomes king of the Welsh fairies, 392;
his interview with Saint Collen, 389-391.
Gwynas, Sir, 359.
Gwyngelli, a companion of Arthur, 352.
Gwynhwyvar, 315, 326, 331-333, 334, 364.
See Guinevere.
Gwynn Mygddwn, the horse of Gweddw, 347.
Gwynwas, a form of the name Gwyn, q.v., 332, 359.
Gwyrd Gwent, father of one of the three Gwynhwyvars, 331.
Gwyrthur, son of Greidawl, contends with Gwyn for Creudylad, 258, 259, 348, 407;
father of one of the three Gwynhwyvars, 331.
Hacket, Castle, 244.
Hades, the Celtic. See Other World, Celtic.
Hades, the Greek god, 152, 260.
“Hades, Head of”, a name given to Pwyll, 278, 282.
Hallowe’en, 40, 153, 407, 410.
Hamitic languages, 19.
“Happy Plain”, the, 133, 135, 186.
See Mag Mell.
Hare held sacred by the Ancient Britons, 417.
Harlech, 289, 294, 295, 296.
Harp of the Dagda, 54, 346;
of Angus, 56;
of Teirtu, 346.
Havgan, a king of Annwn, 279, 281.
Hawthorn, chief of Giants, father of Olwen, 340, 341, 343-345, 349, 353.
Heifer, a black-maned, called “Ocean”, 80, 117, 240;
the Morrígú takes the shape of a, 169-170.
Hengist, 325.
Henuinus, Duke of Cornwall, 382, 383.
Hephæstus, the Gaelic, 61, 63, 233.
Heracles, 158, 276.
Heré, 263.
Hereford, 299.
Hergest, the Red Book of, 11, 258, 260, 312, 328, 336, 369.
Herimon, 40.
See Eremon.
“Hero-light”, Cuchulainn’s, 177, 183.
“Hero’s salmon-leap”, Cuchulainn’s, 163.
Hesiod, 65.
Hesperides, garden of the. See Garden.
Hesus, a Gaulish god, 52.
Hevydd the Ancient, father of Rhiannon, 283, 285.
Hi Dorchaide, 70.
Hibbert Lectures (for 1886) on Celtic Heathendom, Professor Rhys’s, 41, 43, 48, 51, 54, 57, 59, 90, 120, 205, 238, 253, 254, 258, 262, 264, 268, 271, 277, 282, 284, 307, 313, 318, 324, 325, 331, 377, 408.
Hill of Uisnech, 69, 324.
Historia Britonum of Nennius, 9, 336;
of Geoffrey of Monmouth, 9, 251, 323, 324, 336, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 381, 384, 386.
Hittites, the, 20.
Holy Families of Britain, the Three Chief, 386.
Holy Grail, the. See Grail.
Holy wells, 414-415.
Homeric and Celtic civilization compared, 25, 29.
Hoodie-crow, 52, 53, 169, 271.
Horse of Manannán mac Lir, 60, 88, 98;
of Gweddw, 347;
of Gwyn son of Nudd, 255, 256, 348.
“Hound of Culann”, the, 161, 166;
hound of Lugh, 63;
of the king of Ioruaidhé, 104;
hounds of Finn mac Coul, 213;
hounds of Celtic myth, 225, 280, 391, 392.
Hull, Miss Eleanor, her Cuchullin Saga, 155, 156, 159, 184, 190, 199, 227.
Human sacrifices of the Druids, 37, 38;
to Cromm Cruaich, 38, 39, 40, 400;
symbolical, 405, 410, 411.
Huon of Bordeaux, Sir, 7.
Huxley, Professor, 19.
Hy-Breasail, 133.