[361]. Rhys: Arthurian Legend, p. 7.
[362]. “It is worthy of remark that the fame of Arthur is widely spread; he is claimed alike as a prince in Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, Cumberland, and the Lowlands of Scotland; that is to say, his fame is conterminous with the Brythonic race, and does not extend to the Gaels”.—Chambers’s Encyclopædia.
[363]. For Arthurian and Fenian parallels see Campbell’s Popular Tales of the West Highlands.
[364]. See chap. I of Rhys’s Arthurian Legend—“Arthur, Historical and Mythical”.
[365]. A triad in the Hengwrt MS. 536, translated by Skene. It was Trystan who was watching the swine for his uncle, while the swineherd went with a message to Essylt (Iseult), “and Arthur desired one pig by deceit or by theft, and could not get it.”
[366]. See note to chap. XXII—“The Treasures of Britain”.
[367]. Book of Taliesin, poem XXX, Skene, Vol. I, p. 256.
[368]. In a probably very ancient poem embedded in the sixteenth-century Welsh romance called Taliesin, included by Lady Guest in her Mabinogion.
[369]. “The existence of a sixth-century bard of this name, a contemporary of the heroic stage of British resistance to the Germanic invaders, is well attested. A number of poems are found in mediæval Welsh MSS., chief among them the so-called Book of Taliesin, ascribed to this sixth-century poet. Some of these are almost as old as any remains of Welsh poetry, and may go back to the early tenth or the ninth century; others are productions of the eleventh, twelfth, and even thirteenth centuries.”—Nutt: Notes to his (1902) edition of Lady Guest’s Mabinogion.
[370]. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures, p. 551.