[12] Navarrette, Coll. de Documents, I, p. 244, quoted in Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, p. 525. [↑]

[13] William Ellis, Polynesian Researches (1st edition, London, 1829), Vol. II, pp. 47 et seq. [↑]

[14] Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. III, Tale LXXXVI. [↑]

[15] Legends of Gods and Ghosts, p. 246. [↑]

[16] Nineteen Years in Polynesia, p. 353. [↑]

[17] Swarga-rohanika Parva, Section III (Roy’s translation), p. 9. The chief of the gods says to Yudhishthira: “Here is the celestial river.… Plunging into it, thou wilt go to thine own regions (Paradise).” Having bathed, the hero “cast off his human body” and “assumed a celestial form”. [↑]

[18] Odyssey, XV (Butcher and Lang’s trans.), p. 253. [↑]

[19] S. H. O’Grady, Silva Gadelica, Vol. II, pp. 393–4. [↑]

[20] Ibid., Vol. II, p. 113. [↑]

[21] The Voyage of Bran. [↑]