[24]. Caesar: De Bello Gallico, Book IV, chap. XXXIII.
[25]. From the Táin Bó Chuailgné. The translator is Mr. Standish Hayes O’Grady.
[26]. Tochmarc Emire—the Wooing of Emer—an old Irish romance.
[27]. Sometimes spelt “Conachar”, and pronounced Conhower or Connor.
[28]. The Wooing of Emer.
[29]. Caesar: De Bello Gallico, Book V, chap. XXI, and various passages in Book VII.
[30]. Ibid., chap. XIV.
[31]. See Schrader: Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples, pp. 138, 272.
[32]. A description of the Druidical cult of the mistletoe is given by Pliny: Natural History, XVI, chap. XCV.
[33]. See Frazer: The Golden Bough, chap. IV.