The Mythology of the British Islands / An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and Romance

by Charles Squire

[54]. Hibbert Lectures, 1886. Lecture I—“The Gaulish Pantheon”.

[55]. See Rhys: Lectures on Welsh Philology, pp. 426, 552, 653.

[56]. Pronounced Tooăha dae donnann.

[57]. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures, 1886. Lecture VI—“Gods, Demons, and Heroes”.

[58]. Ibid.

[59]. De Jubainville: Le Cycle Mythologique Irlandais, chap. V.

[60]. De Jubainville: Cycle Mythologique Irlandais, chap. IX.

[61]. From the fifteenth-century Harleian MS. in the British Museum, numbered 5280, and called the Second Battle of Moytura.

[62]. Harleian MS. 5280.

[63]. “In Munster was worshipped the goddess of prosperity, whose name was Ana, and from her are named the Two Paps of Ana over Luachair Degad.” From Coir Anmann, the Choice of Names, a sixteenth-century tract, published by Dr. Whitley Stokes in Irische Texte.