Footnote 1260:[(return)]
Curtin, Tales, 158; Rh[^y]s, CFL i. 230.
Footnote 1261:[(return)]
Nutt-Meyer, i. 159.
Footnote 1262:[(return)]
In the Vedas, Elysium has also a strong agricultural aspect, probably for the same reasons.
Footnote 1263:[(return)]
D'Arbois, ii. 119, 192, 385, vi. 197, 219; RC xxvi. 173; Les Druides, 121.
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For the text see Windisch, Ir. Gram. 120: "Totchurethar bii bithbi at gérait do dáinib Tethrach. ar-dot-chiat each dia i n-dálaib tathardai eter dugnathu inmaini." Dr. Stokes and Sir John Rh[^y]s have both privately confirmed the interpretation given above.
Footnote 1265:[(return)]
"Dialogue of the Sages," RC xxvi. 33 f.
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Tethra was husband of the war-goddess Badb, and in one text his name is glossed badb (Cormac, s.v. "Tethra"). The name is also glossed muir, "sea," by O'Cleary, and the sea is called "the plain of Tethra" (Arch. Rev. i. 152). These obscure notices do not necessarily denote that he was ruler of an oversea Elysium.
Footnote 1267:[(return)]
Nennius, Hist. Brit. § 13; D'Arbois, ii. 86, 134, 231.
Footnote 1268:[(return)]
LL 8b; Keating, 126.
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Both art motifs and early burial customs in the two countries are similar. See Reinach, RC xxi. 88; L'Anthropologie, 1889, 397; Siret, Les Premiere Ages du Metal dans le Sud. Est. de l'Espagne.