[4] One version of it is given in the Myvyrian Archaiology, i. 176–8; and two other versions are to be found in the Cymmrodor, viii. 177–89, where it is suggested that the author was Iolo Goch, who flourished in the fourteenth century. See also my Arthurian Legend, pp. 57–8. [↑]
[5] See also the notes on these passages, given in San-Marte’s edition of Geoffrey, pp. 219, 463–5, and his Beiträge zur bretonischen und celtisch germanischen Heldensage (Quedlinburg and Leipsic, 1847), p. 81. [↑]
[6] See Choice Notes, pp. 69–70. [↑]
[7] See Wood-Martin’s Pagan Ireland (London, 1895), p. 140. [↑]
[8] See Choice Notes, p. 61, where it is also stated that the country people in Yorkshire used to give the name of souls to certain night-flying white moths. See also the Athenæum, No. 1041, Oct. 9, 1847. [↑]
[9] For this also I am indebted to Wood-Martin’s book, p. 140. [↑]
[10] See the Book of the Dun Cow, fo. 198, and Windisch’s Irische Texte, pp. 136–45. An abstract of the story will be found in the Hibbert Lectures on Celtic Heathendom, p. 502. [↑]
[11] See the Book of the Dun Cow, fo. 129a–133a; Windisch’s Irische Texte, pp. 117–33, more especially pp. 127–31; also my Arthurian Legend, pp. 29–33. [↑]
[12] See the Book of Taliessin, poem vii, in Skene’s Four Ancient Books of Wales, ii. 136–7; also poem viii, p. 137 et seq. [↑]
[13] Some account of this process will be found in Elton’s Origins of English History (London, 1882), p. 33, where he has drawn on Martin’s Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, published in 1703: see pp. 204–5. [↑]