Footnote 167:[(return)]

Harl. MSS. 2, 17, pp. 90-99. Cf. fragment from Book of Invasions in LL 8.

Footnote 168:[(return)]

Harl. MS. 5280, translated in RC xii. 59 f.

Footnote 169:[(return)]

RC xii. 60; D'Arbois, v. 405 f.

Footnote 170:[(return)]

For Celtic brother-sister unions see p. [224].

Footnote 171:[(return)]

O'Donovan, Annals, i. 16.

Footnote 172:[(return)]

RC xv. 439.

Footnote 173:[(return)]

RC xii. 71.

Footnote 174:[(return)]

Professor Rh[^y]s thinks the Partholan story is the aboriginal, the median the Celtic version of the same event. Partholan, with initial p cannot be Goidelic (Scottish Review, 1890, "Myth. Treatment of Celtic Ethnology").

Footnote 175:[(return)]

HL 591.

Footnote 176:[(return)]

CM ix. 130; Campbell LF 68.