[26]. Gougaud, Chrétientés, p. 22. The derivation of the word Druid is uncertain. There appears to be no doubt that the Druids practised a form of divination founded not on the flight but on the song of birds, that of the wren in particular. Dren is Irish for wren. From this some have inferred that Druid is derived from dren drui-én. There is another Irish word drúi (genitive druad) which meant a magician. Anwyl, Celtic Religion, p. 55.
[27]. Prof. Oman’s translation, England before the Norman Conquest, p. 74.
[28]. See, however, [chap. iv].
[29]. D. Gougaud, Chrétientés, pp. 16, 17.
[30]. Edited by M. Fawtier (Paris, Champion, 5 Quai Malequais, 1912). The Latin text is given in the appendix to this book p. [169].
[31]. Déchelette, Archéologie Préhistorique, p. 441.
[32]. Oman, England before the Norman Conquest, p. 30.
[33]. Anatole le Braz, La nuit des feux.
[34]. Romans de la Table Ronde, p. 110.
[35]. The Roll was printed by the Royal Institution of Cornwall in 1887. Extracts from some of the later rolls are given by Mr. J. H. Matthews in his History of St. Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor, pp. 133-42; and by Dr. W. J. Stephens in his Collections for a History of Crantock.