[127] Henderson's Survivals, p. 218.
[128] Rowan-berry wine was greatly favoured. There are Gaelic references to "the wine of the apple (cider)".
[129] George Nicholson, Encyclopædia of Horticulture, under "Oak".
[130] Curragh is connected with the Latin corium, a hide.
[131] Schliemann, Troy and Its Remains, p. 232.
[132] Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. XXI, p. 129.
[133] It was because Zeus had been suckled by a sow that the Cretans, as Athenæus records, "will not taste its flesh" (Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, Vol. I, p. 37). In Ireland the dog was taboo to Cuchullin. There is a good deal of Gaelic lore about the sacred cow.
[134] L'Anthropologie (1921), pp. 268 et seq.
[135] Lady Charlotte Guest, The Mabinogion (Story of "Kilwch and Olwen" and note on "Gwyn the son of Nudd").
[136] Also shiubhail e which signifies "he went off" (as when walking).