Mabinogi, the Four Branches of the,
14,
15,
355.
See also Guest, Lady Charlotte.
Mac Cecht, a king of the Tuatha Dé Danann,
122,
125,
126,
130.
Mac Cuill, a king of the Tuatha Dé Danann,
122,
125,
126,
130.
Mac Gee, Thomas D’Arcy,
232.
Mac Greiné, a king of the Tuatha Dé Danann,
122,
125,
126,
130.
Mac Moineanta, a king of the Irish fairies,
242.
Mac Nia, an old Irish poet,
138.
Mac Oc, “Son of the Young”, a title of Angus,
56,
139.
MacPherson’s
Ossian,
203.
Macha, a war-goddess of the Gaels,
52,
72,
112;
“Macha’s acorn-crop”,
53;
Macleod, Miss Fiona,
241.
Maelmuiri, scribe of the Book of the Dun Cow,
10.
Maen Tyriawc, the grave of Pryderi,
311.
Maglaunus, Duke of Albania,
382,
383.
Mag Mell, the “Happy Plain”, a name for the Celtic Elysium,
133,
135.
Mag Mon, the “Plain of Sports”, a name for the Celtic Elysium,
134.
Mag Slecht, human sacrifices at,
38-40,
132,
154.
Mag Tuireadh, see Moytura.
Malvasius, king of Iceland,
376.
Man, Isle of,
23,
24,
57,
60,
175,
241,
261,
272,
273,
408,
409.
Manannán son of Lêr, a Gaelic god,
60-61,
89,
98,
129,
134,
136,
140,
143,
157,
186,
188,
199,
202,
203,
205,
217,
224,
233,
235-237,
239,
240-242,
270,
371,
405;
his “Feast of Age”,
61,
143;
lord of the Celtic Paradise,
134;
his wife Fand in love with Cuchulainn,
186-188;
his friendship with Cormac, king of Ireland,
203;
his message to Saint Columba,
240-241;
his connection with the Isle of Man,
60,
241-242.
Manawyddan son of Llyr, his British analogue,
270,
271,
273,
289,
290,
293,
294,
296,
298-304,
313,
315,
317,
321,
338,
352,
373;
accompanies Brân to Ireland,
289-294;
defeats the magic of Llwyd, son of Kilcoed,
301-304;
constructs the bone-prison of Oeth and Anoeth,
270;
helps Arthur in the chase of Twrch Trwyth,
352.
Maponos, a Gallo-British sun-god,
276,
328.
“Master of All Arts”, see Ioldanach.
Mâth, a British god, brother to Dôn,
260,
265,
266,
268,
308,
310,
322,
329,
360,
361,
364;
meaning of his name,
260;
teaches magic to Gwydion,
260;
rules from Caer Dathyl,
308;
Matholwch, king of Ireland,
289-293.
Mâthonwy, father of Mâth,
260,
308.
Matière de Bretagne, the,
363,
365.
Medb, queen of Connaught,
147,
154,
164-168,
170,
171,
172,
175,
178,
179,
183,
200,
246;
makes war on Ulster to get the Brown Bull of Cualgne,
165-166;
becomes a fairy queen,
246;
is perhaps the original of “Queen Mab”,
246.
Mediterranean Race, The, Prof. Sergi’s,
20.
Meleaus, or Melias, de Lile, Sir,
359.
Melga, king of the Picts,
375.
Meliagaunce, or Meliagraunce, Sir,
359,
365,
407.
Mercurius Artaius, a Gallo-Roman god,
274,
313.
See Myrddin.
Mesgegra, king of Leinster,
147,
154.
Miach, son of Diancecht,
62,
80-82,
232.
Mider, Gaelic god of the Under World,
56,
57,
117,
136,
140,
142,
147-151,
154,
157,
175,
179,
205,
211-213,
224,
243,
331-333;
rebels against Bodb the Red,
140;
gambles with Eochaid Airem for possession of Etain,
149;
is besieged in his
sídh, and helped by the Fenians,
211-213.
Mithras, a Persian sun-god worshipped at York,
275.
Modron, wife of Urien and mother of Mabon,
328,
338.
Mona, see Anglesey.
Mongan, an Ulster prince, a reincarnation of Finn mac Coul,
37.
Monmouth, Geoffrey of. See Geoffrey.
Morc, son of Dela, a king of the Fomors,
67,
327.
Morgawse, sister to Arthur,
323.
Morrígú, the, Gaelic goddess of war,
52,
53,
72,
87,
98,
107,
113,
117,
139,
157,
168-170,
323;
her dealings with Cuchulainn on the Táin Bó Chuailgne,
168-170.
Morte Darthur, Sir Thomas Malory’s,
7,
272,
276,
323,
328,
334,
354,
362,
364-368,
372,
407.
“Mound, Lord of the”,
41,
403.
Mountains of Ireland, the twelve chief,
87.
Mouse, Manawyddan and the,
301-304.
Southern, Battle of,
72-77,
114.
Murias, a city of the Tuatha Dé Danann,
71,
72.
Mur y Castell, Lleu’s palace near Bala Lake,
265,
268.
gave its first name to Britain,
323;
his town Carmarthen,
324;
appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth and in the Morte Darthur as Merlin, q.v.
Myrddin, a sixth-century British bard,
11.
Mythology, importance of,
1;
Celtic, its influence on English literature,
6,
7;
on mediæval chivalric romance,
184.