Name, ancient British superstitions with regard to, 263.
Names, Choice of, The. See Coir Anmann.
Names, early of Britain, 292, 323;
of Ireland, 126, 150, 151.
Nant Call, 310.
Nant y Llew, 267.
Naoise, son of Usnach, 191-193, 195-198.
Narberth, 279, 281, 282, 283, 288, 298, 300.
Navan Fort, 158.
Neamhuainn, Clann, 216, 218.
Neath, Vale of, 255, 335, 392.
Nedd, river, 405.
Neevougi, a stone worshipped at Inniskea, 415.
Nemed, 67-69, 274;
the race of, 229, 230, 327, 406.
Nemetona, a war-goddess worshipped at Bath, 275, 276.
Nemon, a Gaelic war-goddess, wife of Nuada, 52, 276.
Nennius, his History of the Britons, 9, 336.
Nentres, King, 357, 362.
Nereids, 403.
Nêt, an Iberian god, 64.
New Grange, 137-139.
Nia, the Plain of, 73.
Niamh of the Golden Hair, daughter of Manannán, 223-225.
Nicholson’s Keltic Researches, 3.
Niebelungenlied, 393.
Nimue, 358, 361, 362.
Nissyen, son of Penardun, 290, 293.
Niul, 120.
Noah, descent of the Gaelic gods and men from, 329.
Nodens, a temple to, at Lydney, 253.
“Northern Crown”, constellation of the, 252.
Nos galan-gaeof, the Welsh winter festival, 408.
Nuada of the Silver Hand, a Gaelic Zeus, 51, 52, 74, 75, 78, 80, 81, 83-86, 93, 94, 105, 122, 157, 230, 253, 276, 323;
his sword, 51, 71;
his wives, 52;
his hand cut off in battle, 75;
a silver hand made for him by Diancecht, 78;
his own hand renewed by Miach and Airmid, 81;
his death at the hands of Balor, 112;
his tomb at Grianan Aileach, 122, 157.
Nudd, British god, 252, 253, 254, 313;
to be identified with Lludd, q.v.
Nutt, Mr. Alfred, 12, 37, 38, 134, 154, 158, 164, 318, 348.
Nwyvre, 322, 364.
Nynniaw, son of Beli, 268, 269, 313.
Oak, held sacred by the Druids, 33.
Oberon, 7, 392.
“Ocean”, a black-maned heifer called, 80, 240.
Ochall Ochne, king of the Sídhe of Connaught, 164.
Ochren, battle of, 305;
Caer, 320;
see Achren.
Octriallach, son of Indech, 110;
the “Cairn of Octriallach”, 110.
O’Curry, Eugene, 37, 56, 63, 72, 78, 89, 93, 111, 113, 137, 138, 146, 151, 152, 155, 188, 201, 204.
Odin, 260.
O’Donaghue, the, 247.
O’Donovan, 238.
Oeth and Anoeth, the Bone-prison of, 270, 271, 317, 373.
O’Flynn, Eochaid, an old Irish poet, 231.
Ogam, writings in, 58, 93, 151, 189.
Ogma, Gaelic god of Literature and Eloquence, 57-60, 79, 80, 82, 84, 85, 112, 116, 117, 122, 136, 139, 157, 276;
his wife and children, 57;
his epithets of “Cermait” and “Grianainech”, 57, 59;
his great strength, 59;
kills Indech in the battle of Moytura, 112;
inventor of the ogam alphabet, 58.
Ogmios, a Gaulish god, 276.
O’Grady, Standish Hayes, Mr., 28, 159, 201, 203, 205, 207, 213, 215, 222.
Ogyrvran, a British god of the Under World, father of Gwynhwyvar, 329-331, 357, 366.
O’Herlebys, wooden idol of the, 413.
Old Plain, the, 66.
Old Sarum, 29, 386.
Olwen, 340, 341, 343, 345, 353.
Onagh, queen of the Irish fairies, 243, 244.
Origins of English History, Mr. Elton’s, 6, 8, 25, 26, 70, 228, 327, 413.
Orkneys, 386;
King Lot of Orkney, 359.
Oscar, son of Ossian, 208, 212, 217, 222, 246, 315.
Osla Big-Knife, 352, 353.
Ossian, MacPherson’s, 203.
Ossian, son of Finn mac Coul, 11, 208, 212, 214, 215, 217, 220, 223-227, 246, 318, 337.
“Ossianic ballads”, 205, 208, 213;
Ossianic Society, see Transactions.
Other World, the Celtic, 65, 68, 71, 98, 119, 121, 133-136, 150, 151, 175, 176, 201, 202, 203, 224, 252, 255, 270, 271, 272, 273, 278, 279, 281, 305, 307, 316, 317, 318-322, 329, 334, 336, 366, 387, 389, 395;
different names of, 133, 318-320;
descriptions of, 136, 150-151, 224;
variously imagined as upon the sea, 202, 224, 272, 394;
under the sea, 305;
under the earth, 135-136;
upon earth, 271, 272, 273, 278, 279;
original abode of men, 119;
visited by Cuchulainn, 175-176, 186;
Conn, 201;
Connla, 202;
Ossian, 224;
Pwyll, 281;
Gwydion, 305;
Arthur, 317-320.
See also Annwn, Avilion, Happy Plain, Mag Mell, Mag Mon, Land of Happiness, of the Living, of Promise, of Summer, of the Young.
Ousel of Cilgwri, 349.
Ovid’s Metamorphoses, 393.
Owain, son of Urien, 328, 330;
Sir Owain, 363.
Owl, of Cwm Cawlwyd, 349;
Blodeuwedd changed into an, 268.
Ox, the brindled, 320, 321;
oxen, magic, 345.
Oxford, 379.
Paradise, the Celtic.
See Other World, Celtic.
Parthludd, 254, 376.
Partholon, 65-68, 386; race of, 229, 230, 406.
Patrick, Saint, 8, 40, 41, 132, 145, 222, 225, 226, 227, 242, 401, 402.
Paul’s Cathedral, Saint, 254.
Pausanias’s Description of Greece, 36.
Pedigree of the gods, 229;
of Finn mac Coul, 204.
Pedryvan, Caer, 319, 356, 367.
Peel Castle, 242.
Peibaw, son of Beli, 268, 269, 313.
Pelasgoi, 20.
Peleur, King, 368.
Pellam, King, 358, 364.
Pellean, King, 358.
Pelleas, Sir, 358, 368;
Pelleas and Ettarre, Tennyson’s Idyll of, 358.
Pelles, King, 357, 362, 367.
Pellinore, King, 362.
Pembroke, County Guardian, the, 394.
Pembrokeshire, 273, 278, 394.
Pen Annwn, the “Head of Hades”, a title of Pwyll, 278, 282.
Penardun, daughter of Beli and wife of Llyr, 269, 270, 289, 290, 293.
Pendaran Dyfed, 288, 295.
Pendragon, meaning of the word, 330.
Pennant, 409.
Percivale, Sir, 359, 363, 368, 369.
Peredur, 330, 368, 369.
Perilous glens, the, 163.
Persephoné, the British, 259, 260.
Persia, 274;
Pisear, king of, 96, 97, 101-103.
Petrie, Dr., 72, 98, 114.
Picts, 23, 230, 401, 417.
Pigs, in the Celtic Other World, 136;
of Manannán, 61, 63;
of Easal, king of the Golden Pillars, 96, 97, 103;
of Pryderi, 308, 316, 327;
of March, 316, 327;
of Angus, 214;
Cian changed into a pig, 91.
Pigskin of King Tuis, the, 96, 99, 100.
Pillars, king of the Golden. See Easal.
Pisear, king of Persia, 96, 97, 101-103.
Pixies, 393.
Plain of Ill Luck, 163;
of the Sea, 72;
of Adoration, 38;
the Old, 66.
Pliny, 33, 35, 400.
Plutarch, 326.
Pluto, the Gaelic, 57;
the Cambrian, 260.
Poetry, the Gaelic goddess of, 56;
cauldron of inspiration and, 365-370.
Policy of the Christian Church towards objects of pagan worship, 417.
Pookas, 247, 248, 393, 403, 405.
Porsena, a Roman consul, 385.
Poseidon, 52, 260;
the Gaelic, 60;
the British, 269.
Posidonius, 26.
Prophecy of Badb, 117-118;
of Eriu, 125-126;
of the seeress to Queen Medb, 166;
of Lugh to Conn the Hundred-Fighter, 201-202;
of Cathbad concerning Cuchulainn, 161;
concerning Deirdre, 190-191.
Pryderi, son of Pwyll and Rhiannon, 273, 286-288, 289, 294, 295, 298-301, 303-305, 308, 309-311, 313, 315, 316, 319, 321, 327, 335, 358, 364, 366, 368, 377, 407;
is stolen at birth, 286;
meaning of his name, 288;
accompanies Brân to Ireland, 289-294;
is spirited away by Llwyd and recovered by Manawyddan, 300-304;
receives a present of pigs from Annwn, 308;
is killed by Gwydion, 311;
appears in Arthurian legend, 358.
Prydwen, Arthur’s ship, 319, 320, 352.
Puck, 393.
Puffin Island, 322.
Pursuit of Diarmait and Grainne, The, 215-221.
Pwccas, 393.
Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed and “Head of Annwn”, 273, 274, 278-288, 298, 303, 304, 305, 308, 316, 319, 329, 357-358, 366, 367, 380;
changes shapes with Arawn, king of Annwn, 281;
his wooing of Rhiannon, 282-286;
is owner of a magic cauldron in Hades, 321;
and keeper of the Holy Grail in the Morte Darthur, 357-358.
Pwynt Maen Dulan, 262.