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

by Charles Squire

[531]. Ibid., Book III, chap. XX.

[532]. I.e. London, under its traditionary earlier name, Troja Nova, given it by Brutus.

[533]. The Story of Lludd and Llevelys.

[534]. The name means “dwarfs”. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures, p. 606.

[535]. Historia Britonum, Book II, chap, X-XIV.

[536]. Alba, or North Britain.

[537]. Now Calais.

[538]. Rhys: Arthurian Legend, pp. 131-132.

[539]. Historia Britonum, Book III, chaps. I-X.

[540]. The same fabulous personage, perhaps, as the original of Rabelais’ Gargantua, a popular Celtic god.