Footnote 1202:[(return)]
ZCP ii. 316 f. Here Mongan comes directly from Elysium, as does Oisin before meeting S. Patrick.
Footnote 1203:[(return)]
IT iii. 345; O'Grady, ii. 88. Cf. Rees, 331.
Footnote 1204:[(return)]
Guest, iii. 356 f.; see p. [116], supra.
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In some of the tales the small animal still exists independently after the birth, but this is probably not their primitive form.
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See my Religion: Its Origin and Forms, 76-77.
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Skene, i. 532. After relating various shapes in which he has been, the poet adds that he has been a grain which a hen received, and that he rested in her womb as a child. The reference in this early poem from a fourteenth century MS. shows that the fusion of the Märchen formula with a myth of rebirth was already well known. See also Guest, iii. 362, for verses in which the transformations during the combat are exaggerated.
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Skene, i. 276, 532.
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Miss Hull, 67; D'Arbois, v. 331.
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For various forms of geno-, see Holder, i. 2002; Stokes, US 110.
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For all these names see Holder, s.v.