[390] Latham, R. G., The Varieties of Man, p. 500.
[391] “Thy prowess I allow, yet this remember is the gift of Heaven.”—Homer.
[392] De Jubainville, Irish Myth. Cycle, p. 84.
[393] A Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age (B. M.).
[394] Wright, E. M., Rustic Speech and Folklore, p. 334.
[395] Rev. Hilderic Friend. This gentleman adds: “Interesting as the study proves, we shall none of us regret that the English nation is daily becoming more and more intelligent and enlightened, and is leaving such follies to the heathen and the past” (vol. ii., 568).
[396] As bracken is the plural of brake, fern was once presumably the plural of pher.
[397] See Johnson, W., Byways in British Archæology, 375-7.
[398] Since writing I find that Didron, in vol. ii. of Christian Iconography, p. 180, illustrates a drawing of Jupiter upon which he comments, “a crown of yew leaves surrounds his head”.
[399] Guest, Dr., Origines Celticæ, i., 12.