[214] Northumbria, it will be remembered, was Christianised by Irish monks, who planted monasteries at Lindisfarne and elsewhere, which long maintained the connection between the two countries.
[215] Cp. Plutarch, Vision of Thespesios, ante, Sec. 1, where the souls ascended contained in bubbles.
[216] In the Fis Adamnáin Paradise is placed in the south-east.
[217] Cp. Inferno xii. and xxxii.-xxxiv.
[218] Inf. xxi.-xxii.; and cp. the Centaurs in Inf. xii. 56.
[219] Inf. xxxii.-xxxiv.
[220] Inf. ix.
[221] Inf. v.
[222] Inf. xxiv.-xxv.
[223] Inf. xxiii. 111 sqq.