[1265] “Dialogue of the Sages,” RC xxvi. 33 f.

[1266] Tethra was husband of the war-goddess Badb, and in one text his name is glossed badb (Cormac, s.v. “Tethra").  The name is also glossed muir, “sea,” by O’Cleary, and the sea is called “the plain of Tethra” (Arch.  Rev. i. 152).  These obscure notices do not necessarily denote that he was ruler of an oversea Elysium.

[1267] Nennius, Hist.  Brit. Sec. 13; D’Arbois, ii. 86, 134, 231.

[1268] LL 8_b_; Keating, 126.

[1269] Both art motifs and early burial customs in the two countries are similar.  See Reinach, RC xxi. 88; L’Anthropologie, 1889, 397; Siret, Les Premiere Ages du Metal dans le Sud.  Est. de l’Espagne.

[1270] Orosius, i. 2. 71; LL 11_b_.

[1271] D’Arbois, v. 384; O’Grady, ii. 385.

[1272] TOS iii. 119; Joyce, OCR 314.  For a folk-tale version see Folk-lore, vii. 321.

[1273] Leahy, i. 36; Campbell, LF 29; CM xiii. 285; Dean of Lismore’s Book, 54.

[1274] O’Curry, MC ii. 143; Cormac, 35.

[1275] See p. 187, supra; IT iii. 213.

[1276] See Gaidoz, “La Requisition de l’Amour et la Symbolisme de la Pomme,” Ann. de l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 1902; Fraser, Pausanias, iii. 67.

[1277] Rh[^y]s, HL 359.

[1278] “The Silver Bough in Irish Legend,” Folk-Lore, xii. 431.

[1279] Cook, Folk-Lore, xvii. 158.

[1280] IT i. 133.

[1281] O’Donovan, Battle of Mag Rath, 50; D’Arbois, v. 67; IT i. 96.  Dagda’s cauldron came from Murias, probably an oversea world.

[1282] Miss Hull, 244.  Scath is here the Other-world, conceived, however, as a dismal abode.

[1283] O’Curry, MC ii. 97, iii. 79; Keating, 284 f.; RC xv. 449.

[1284] Skene, i. 264; cf. RC xxii. 14.

[1285] P. 116, supra.

[1286] Guest, iii. 321 f.

[1287] See pp. 103, 117, supra.

[1288] For the use of a vessel in ritual as a symbol of deity, see Crooke, Folk-Lore, viii. 351 f.

[1289] Diod.  Sic. v. 28; Athen. iv. 34; Joyce, SH ii. 124; Antient Laws of Ireland, iv. 327.  The cauldrons of Irish houses are said in the texts to be inexhaustible (cf. RC xxiii. 397).

[1290] Strabo, vii. 2. 1; Lucan, Usener’s ed., p. 32; IT iii. 210; Antient Laws of Ireland, i. 195 f.

[1291] Curtin, HTI 249, 262.

[1292] See Villemarque, Contes Pop. des anciens Bretons, Paris, 1842; Rh[^y]s, AL; and especially Nutt, Legend of the Holy Grail, 1888.

[1293] “Adventures of Nera,” RC x. 226; RC xvi. 62, 64.

[1294] P. 106, supra.