The Religion of the Ancient Celts

by J. A. MacCulloch

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Rh[^y]s, AL, 39 f. Others derive the name from arto-s, "bear." MacBain, 357.

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Loth. ii. 247; Skene, ii. 459.

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Geoffrey, vi. 17-19, vii. viii. 1, 10-12, 19. In a poem (Skene, i. 478), Myrddin is called "the man who speaks from the grave"—a conception familiar to the Celts, who thought of the dead as living on in the grave. See p. [340], infra.

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Rh[^y]s, HL, 154 f., 158-159, 194.

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Geoffrey, ix. 12, etc.

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Skene, ii. 51.

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Loth. i. 225; cf. p. [131], infra. From this description Elton supposes Kei to have been a god of fire.

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Myv. Arch. i. 175; Loth, i. 269. Rh[^y]s, AL 59, thinks Merlin may have been Guinevere's ravisher.

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Holder, i. 414.

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Loth i. 250, 260 f., 280, ii. 215, 244.