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See Rh[^y]s, HL 122; Cook, Folk-Lore, xvii. 30.
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Stokes, US 194-195; Rh[^y]s, HL, 128, IT i. 712.
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Loth, ii. 235, 296. See p. [160], infra.
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Joyce, OCR.
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For these four Manannans see Cormac 114, RC xxiv. 270, IT iii. 357.
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O'Grady, ii.
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Bodley Dindsenchas, No. 10, RC xii. 105; Joyce, SH i. 259; Otia Merseiana, ii. "Song of the Sea."
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LU 133.
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Moore, 6.
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Geoffrey, Vita Merlini, 37; Rees, 435. Other saintly legends are derived from myths, e.g. that of S. Barri in his boat meeting S. Scuithne walking on the sea. Scuithne maintains he is walking on a field, and plucks a flower to prove it, while Barri confutes him by pulling a salmon out of the sea. This resembles an episode in the meeting of Bran and Manannan (Stokes, Félire, xxxix.; Nutt-Meyer, i. 39). Saints are often said to assist men just as the gods did. Columcille and Brigit appeared over the hosts of Erin assisting and encouraging them (RC xxiv. 40).