[478] Britannia Antiquissima, p. 5.
[479] This on the face of it looks far-fetched, but the intermediate forms may easily be traced, and the suggestion is really more rational than the current claim that fir and quercus are the “same word”.
[480] Statues of Epona represent her seated “between foals”. Ancient Britain, p. 279.
[481] A small bell swinging in a circle may often be seen to-day as a “flyer” ornament on the heads of London carthorses.
[482] Guest, Dr., Origines Celticæ, ii., p. 159.
[483] Tacitus in Agricola gives Cogidumnus an excellent reference to the following effect: “Certain districts were assigned to Cogidumnus, a king who reigned over part of the country. He lived within our own memory, preserving always his faith unviolated, and exhibiting a striking proof of that refined policy, with which it has ever been the practice of Rome to make even kings accomplices in the servitude of mankind.”
[484] This functionary is said to have acquired his title by distraining on, or catching the people’s pullets.
[485] The Romance of Names, p. 184.
[486] Hazlitt, W. C., Faiths and Folklore, ii., 543.
[487] Ibid., ii., 408.