[141]. It may be noted that, according to Welsh legend, the ancestors of the Cymri came from Gwlâd yr Hâv, the “Land of Summer”, i.e. the Celtic Other World.
[142]. De Bello Gallico, Book VI, chap. XVIII.
[143]. De Jubainville: Cycle Mythologique, chap. X. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures—“The Gaulish Pantheon”.
[144]. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Britonum, Book I, chap. II.
[145]. Contained in the Book of Leinster and other ancient manuscripts.
[146]. Now called the Kenmare River.
[147]. This poem and the three following ones, all attributed to Amergin, are said to be the oldest Irish literary records.
[148]. Book of Taliesin, poem VIII, in Skene’s Four Ancient Books of Wales, Vol. I, p. 276.
[149]. De Jubainville: Cycle Mythologique. See also the Transactions of the Ossianic Society, Vol. V.
[150]. Translated by Professor Owen Connellan in Vol. V of the Transactions of the Ossianic Society.