Footnote 83:[(return)]
Barthelemy, RC i. l f.
Footnote 84:[(return)]
See Flouest, Rev. Arch. v. 17.
Footnote 85:[(return)]
Reinach, RC xvii. 45.
Footnote 86:[(return)]
D'Arbois, ii. 126. He explains Nantosvelta as meaning "She who is brilliant in war." The goddess, however, has none of the attributes of a war-goddess. M. D'Arbois also saw in a bas-relief of the hammer-god, a female figure, and a child, the Gaulish equivalents of Balor, Ethne, and Lug (RC xv. 236). M. Reinach regards Sucellos, Nantosvelta, and a bird which is figured with them, as the same trio, because pseudo-Plutarch (de Fluv. vi. 4) says that lougos means "crow" in Celtic. This is more than doubtful. In any case Ethne has no warlike traits in Irish story, and as Lug and Balor were deadly enemies, it remains to be explained why they appear tranquilly side by side. See RC xxvi. 129. Perhaps Nantosvelta, like other Celtic goddesses, was a river nymph. Nanto Gaulish is "valley," and nant in old Breton is "gorge" or "brook." Her name might mean "shining river." See Stokes, US 193, 324.
Footnote 87:[(return)]
RC xviii. 254. Cernunnos may be the Juppiter Cernenos of an inscription from Pesth, Holder, s.v.
Footnote 88:[(return)]
Reinach, BF 186, fig. 177.
Footnote 89:[(return)]
Rev. Arch. xix. 322, pl. 9.
Footnote 90:[(return)]
Bertrand, Rev. Arch. xv. 339, xvi. pl. 12.
Footnote 91:[(return)]
Ibid. xv. pl. 9, 10.
Footnote 92:[(return)]
Ibid. xvi. 9.