Footnote 1280:[(return)]

IT i. 133.

Footnote 1281:[(return)]

O'Donovan, Battle of Mag Rath, 50; D'Arbois, v. 67; IT i. 96. Dagda's cauldron came from Murias, probably an oversea world.

Footnote 1282:[(return)]

Miss Hull, 244. Scath is here the Other-world, conceived, however, as a dismal abode.

Footnote 1283:[(return)]

O'Curry, MC ii. 97, iii. 79; Keating, 284 f.; RC xv. 449.

Footnote 1284:[(return)]

Skene, i. 264; cf. RC xxii. 14.

Footnote 1285:[(return)]

P. [116], supra.

Footnote 1286:[(return)]

Guest, iii. 321 f.

Footnote 1287:[(return)]

See pp. [103], [117], supra.

Footnote 1288:[(return)]

For the use of a vessel in ritual as a symbol of deity, see Crooke, Folk-Lore, viii. 351 f.

Footnote 1289:[(return)]

Diod. Sic. v. 28; Athen. iv. 34; Joyce, SH ii. 124; Antient Laws of Ireland, iv. 327. The cauldrons of Irish houses are said in the texts to be inexhaustible (cf. RC xxiii. 397).