[168] Elton, Origins of English History, 82.
[169] Rhys, Celtic Britain, 55.
[170] Celtic Heathendom, 320, note.
[171] I have dealt with this in my Ethnology in Folklore, 36-40.
[172] Skene, Celtic Scotland, i. 59, 84.
[173] Pearson, Hist. of England during the Early and Middle Ages, i. 15, 21, 35.
[174] Ramsay, Foundations of England, i. 9, 11, 30.
[175] Lang, Hist. of Scotland, i. 3-5.
[176] Joyce, Social Hist. of Ireland, i. 19.
[177] In addition to Mr. Lang and Dr. Joyce, who are folklorists as well as historians, and who as we have seen do deal with these records scientifically, the folklorist goes out of his way to reject these records. Thus Mr. Squire says that "the imputation" which Cæsar makes as to polyandrous customs "cannot be said to have been proved," Mythology of the British Islands, 30.