[71]. The word is approximately pronounced Bive or Bibe.
[72]. For a full account of these beings see a paper by Mr. W. M. Hennessey in Vol. I of the Revue Celtique, entitled “The Ancient Irish Goddess of War”.
[73]. De Jubainville: Le Cycle Mythologique. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures, p. 154. The Coir Anmann, however, translates it “Fire of God”.
[74]. The Second Battle of Moytura. Harleian MS. 5280.
[75]. The story is told in the Book of Leinster.
[76]. Now called “Trinity Well”.
[77]. See chap. XIV—“Finn and the Fenians”.
[78]. Book of Leinster. A paraphrase of the story will be found in O’Curry’s Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, Vol. II, p. 143.
[79]. See chap. XV—“The Decline and Fall of the Gods”.
[80]. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures, p. 331.