Footnote 665:[(return)]

Le Braz, ii. 18.

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Mr. Chadwick (Jour. Anth. Inst. xxx. 26) connects this high god with thunder, and regards the Celtic Zeus (Taranis, in his opinion) as a thunder-god. The oak was associated with this god because his worshippers dwelt under oaks.

Footnote 667:[(return)]

Helbig, Die Italiker in der Poebene, 16 f.

Footnote 668:[(return)]

Mannhardt, Baumkultus; Frazer, Golden Bough2 iii. 198.

Footnote 669:[(return)]

Frazer, loc. cit.

Footnote 670:[(return)]

Evans, Arch. Rev. i. 327 f.

Footnote 671:[(return)]

Joyce, SH i. 236.

Footnote 672:[(return)]

O'Curry, MC i. 213.

Footnote 673:[(return)]

LL 199b; Rennes Dindsenchas, RC xv. 420.

Footnote 674:[(return)]

RC xv. 455, xvi. 279; Hennessey, Chron. Scot. 76.