[157] Quoted by Sir H. Colt Hoare in Ancient Wiltshire, II. p. 63.
[158] Stone circle.
[159] In Gaelic deis-iùil means a turning sunwise (by the right or south) from east to west, and tual, i.e. tuath-iùil, a turning by the north or left from east to west. Deis is the genitive of Deas (south, right hand), and Tuath is north or left hand.
[160] The following stanza is from the "Book of Ballymote":
Mottled to simpletons; blue to women;
Crimson to kings of every host;
Green and black to noble laymen;
White to clerics of proper devotion.
[161] In the Cuchullin Saga Lugh is "a lone man out of the north-eastern quarter". When the cry of another supernatural being is heard, Cuchullin asks from which direction it came. He is told "from the north-west". The goddess Morrigan then appeared.
[162] In a Cuchullin saga the hero, addressing the charioteer, says: "Go out, my friend, observe the stars of the air, and ascertain when midnight comes". The Irish Gaelic grien-tairisem is given in an eighth-or ninth-century gloss. It means "sun-standing", and refers to the summer solstice.