[147] Rhys rejects the view of Gildas that "Cuneglasos" meant "tawny butcher".
[148] Herodian, Lib. III, says of the inhabitants of Caledonia, "They mark their bodies with various pictures of all manner of animals".
[149] Book I. Chapter I.
[150] Pliny, Lib. XXXVI. cap. 34.
[151] Ure's History of Rutherglen and Kilbride, p. 219.
[152] Joyce, A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland, p. 478.
[153] Professor W. J. Watson has drawn my attention to an interesting reference to amber. In the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. II, p. 18, under "Celtic Inscriptions of France and Italy", Sir John Rhys deals with Vebrumaros, a man's name. The second element in this name is māros (great); the first, uebru, "is perhaps to be explained by reference to the Welsh word gwefr (amber)". Rhys thought the name meant that the man was distinguished for his display of amber "in the adornment of his person". The name had probably a deeper significance. Amber was closely associated with the mother goddess. One of her names may have been "Uebru". She personified amber.
[154] Richard of Cirencester (fourteenth century) says the mistletoe increased the number of animals, and was considered as a specific against all poisons (Book I, Chap. IV).
[155] Book I. Chap. V.
[156] This excellent Gaelic word is current in Scotland. Burns uses it in the line, "O' a' the airts the wind can blaw".