[369] Skene, i. 296, 281.
[370] Loth, ii. 297; Rh[^y]s, HL 276.
[371] Skene, i. 264.
[372] Rh[^y]s, HL 270. Skene, i. 430, 537, gives a different meaning to seon.
[373] Skene, i. 264.
[374] Loth, ii. 296.
[375] Skene, i. 299, 531.
[376] See p. 224, infra.
[377] Guest, iii. 255; Morris, Celtic Remains, 231.
[378] HL 283 f. See also Grimm, Teut. Myth. i. 131.
[379] Loth, i. 240.
[380] Stokes, US 34.
[381] Myvyrian Archaeol. i. 168; Skene, i. 275, 278 f.; Loth, ii. 259.
[382] See my Childhood of Fiction, 127. Llew’s vulnerability does not depend on the discovery of his separable soul, as is usual. The earliest form of this Maerchen is the Egyptian story of the Two Brothers, and that of Samson and Delilah is another old form of it.
[383] Skene, i. 314, ii. 342.
[384] HL 408; RC x. 490.
[385] HL 237, 319, 398, 408.
[386] HL 384.
[387] HL 474, 424.
[388] Loth, ii. 231.
[389] Loth, i. 240.
[390] Skene, i, 286-287.
[391] Loth, ii. 263.
[392] Skene, ii. 159; Rh[^y]s, HL 157; Guest, iii. 255.
[393] Rh[^y]s, HL 161, 566.
[394] Skene, i. 282, 288, 310, 543, ii. 145; Loth, i. 135; Rh[^y]s, HL 387.
[395] Loth, i. 27 f.; Guest, iii. 7 f.
[396] Rhiannon is daughter of Heveidd Hen or “the Ancient,” probably an old divinity.
[397] In the Mabinogi and in Fionn tales a mysterious hand snatches away newly-born children. Cf. ZCP i. 153.
[398] Anwyl, ZCP i. 288.
[399] Loth, ii. 247.
[400] Skene, i. 264.
[401] Ibid. i. 276.
[402] Ibid. i. 310.
[403] Loth, i. 166.
[404] Hist. Brit. ii. 11, iii. 1, 20, iv. 3.
[405] Cf. Anwyl, ZCP i. 287.
[406] Skene, i. 431; Loth, ii. 278. Some phrases seem to connect Beli with the sea—the waves are his cattle, the brine his liquor.
[407] Loth, ii. 209, 249, 260, 283.
[408] Geoffrey, Brit. Hist. iv. 3. 4.
[409] Rh[^y]s, HL 125 f.; Loth, i. 265; MacBain, CM ix. 66.
[410] See Loth, i. 269; and Skene, i. 293.
[411] Loth, i. 173 f.
[412] Loth, ii. 256, 274.
[413] Rh[^y]s, HL 606. Cf. the Breton fairies, the Korr and Korrigan.
[414] Geoffrey, iii. 20.
[415] Loth, i. 253-254; Skene, i. 293.
[416] Guest, iii. 323.
[417] Ibid. 325.
[418] Loth, i. 253, ii. 297.
[419] See p. 353, infra.; Skene, i. 532.
[420] Anwyl, ZCP i. 293.