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

by Charles Squire

[581]. Gomme: Ethnology in Folklore, p. 140.

[582]. The word Dee probably meant “divinity”. The river was also called Dyfridwy, i.e. “water of the divinity”. See Rhys: Lectures on Welsh Philology, p. 307.

[583]. Rhys: Celtic Britain, p. 68.

[584]. Rogers: Social Life in Scotland, chap. III, p. 336.

[585]. Folklore, chap. III, p. 72.

[586]. Henderson: Folklore of Northern Counties, p. 265.

[587]. Gomme: Ethnology in Folklore, p. 78.

[588]. Hope: Holy Wells of England; Harvey: Holy Wells of Ireland.

[589]. Sikes: British Goblins, p. 351.

[590]. Ibid., p. 329.