Footnote 911:[(return)]
Chambers, Book of Days, ii. 492; Hazlitt, 131.
Footnote 912:[(return)]
Hazlitt, 97; Davies, Extracts from Munic. Records of York, 270.
Footnote 913:[(return)]
See p. [237], supra; LL 16, 213.
Footnote 914:[(return)]
Chambers, Med. Stage, i. 250 f.
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Cormac, s.v. "Belltaine," "Bel"; Arch. Rev. i. 232.
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D'Arbois, ii. 136.
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Stokes, US 125, 164. See his earlier derivation, dividing the word into belt, connected with Lithuan. baltas, "white," and aine, the termination in sechtmaine, "week" (TIG xxxv.).
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Need-fire (Gael. Teinne-eiginn, "necessity fire") was used to kindle fire in time of cattle plague. See Grimm, Teut. Myth. 608 f.; Martin, 113; Jamieson's Dictionary, s.v. "neidfyre."
Footnote 919:[(return)]
Cormac, s.v.; Martin, 105, says that the Druids extinguished all fires until their dues were paid. This may have been a tradition in the Hebrides.
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Joyce, PN i. 216; Hone, Everyday Book, i. 849, ii. 595.