Myths and Legends of the Celts (Penguin Reference)
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Fios (the Partholonian), 131,
fios, 225, 226
Fir Bolg, 105, 130, 132–4, 135, 140, 148; etymology of, 133; pronunciation of, 133
Fir Fálgae, 293
fir flathemon, 51
fire goddesses, 12, 39–40, 46; see also Brigit
First Battle of Mag Tuired, 133, 141
Fís (classification of narrative), 151
fish, imagery and symbolism, 11, 23–4, 299, 300; see also salmon
Fisterra, 303
Flaithius, 63–4
flāmines, 27
Flavius Vopiscus, 67
Fled Bricrenn, xxiii, 87, 188; summarized, 177–84
Fled Dúin na nGéd, 246
Fled Goibnenn, 43–4, 139
Flidais, 19
Flood (Biblical), 24, 128, 129, 130–31; dating of, 129; Ireland, relative to, 130–31
flood legends, 299, 300
Flora, Floralia, 103
Florida, 115
Fochmarc, 131
Fódla, 10, 46, 61–2, 147
folklore, folktale, xviii, xxv, xxvii, 84, 134, 222, 223, 268, 270, 302; ‘folk’ element in, 286; theories of, 286; see also oral tradition
Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man, 294
Folktale, The, xxv
Follamain, 195
Fomorians, 84, 98, 99, 124, 130, 131–2, 134–5, 138, 139, 140, 141–4, 149, 153, 216; described, 134; members, 134–5; origins of, 134
Fontainebleau, 52
Fontes Sequanae, 72
foot-holder, 280–81
Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, 59
ford, fords, 8, 303
Ford, Patrick K., 128, 264
Ford of the Brea, 233
‘Ford of the Overwhelming Gift’, see Áth Tolam Sét
Forgall Manach, 192, 197
formalism, xxix
‘Fortress of Apples’, see Emain Ablach
Fortuna, 71
fosterage, foster parents, 14, 17, 81, 111, 137, 156, 161, 163–4, 166, 170, 186, 188, 194–5, 224, 248, 251, 252, 267
Fothad, 46, 76
Fráech, 24, 58–9
France, xi, xii, xvii, xix, xxvi, 4, 8, 9, 11, 21, 22, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 39, 43, 44, 61, 72, 106, 277, 290, 297, 298; see also Brittany, Burgundy
Franks (ancient people), 298
Frazer, James, Sir, 27–8, 51, 52
Frecraid, 122
French language, xxiv, 49, 232
French people, xi
‘Frenzy of Suibhne/Sweeney, The’, see Buile Suibhne
Freud, Sigmund, xxviii
Friel, Brian, 105
Friuch, 202–3
Frogs, The, 229
Fuamnach, 78, 156, 158
fuiríg, 54
Furbaide (son of Conchobar), 187, 212
Furbaide Ferbend, 87–8
Gabalglinde, 188
Gáe Bulga, 136, 192, 198, 199, 201, 209
Gáe Assail, 154–5
Gaels, 57, 61–2, 152, 157, 220, 286; see also Irish people
Gaelic, see Irish language, Scottish Gaelic
Gaelic Scotland, see Hebrides, Scottish Highlands
gaesatae, 221
Gàidhealtachd, 291
Gaidiar, 122, 124
Gáirech 210
Gairloch, 291
gal- (phoneme), xii
‘Galahad of the Cycle, the’, 229
Galatia, xii
Galatians, xi, 28
Galicia (Poland), xii, xvii
Galicia (Spain), xii, xvii, 12, 35, 146; traditions of, 302–4
Gallaeci, Gallaecia, xi, 302
Gallia, xii
Gallia Narbonensis, 42
Gallic War, xxi, 26, 31
Galway, City, County, 106, 114, 123, 140, 146, 169
Gamel, 142
Gantz, Jeffrey, 185
Garden of Remembrance (Dublin), 163
Garland Sunday, 106
Garlic Sunday, 106
Garonne, 34
Garristown, 233, 240
Gaul, xi, xxi, 8, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 30–31, 37, 39, 45, 60, 67, 72, 74, 262, 270
Gaulish Apollo, xxi, xxi, 21, 31, 33, 34–5
Gaulish Dis Pater, 33
Gaulish Jupiter, xxi, 21, 33, 38–9
Gaulish language, xvi, xix, 31–2, 95, 223
Gaulish Mars, 21, 33, 35–7, 71
Gaulish Mercury, xxi, xxvii, 31, 33–4, 44, 61, 104, 139, 192
Gaulish Minerva, 31, 33, 39–40
Gaulish religion, xx, xxi, 15, 31, 137
Gaulish pantheon, xxi, 41
Gaulish Vulcan, 41, 42
Gauls, xi, xii, xix, xxvii, 4, 7, 18, 22, 32, 41, 67, 127, 174, 192, 197, 221, 244, 247, 298
Gavrinis, 6, 7, 94
Ge, 33, 70, 71
Geilt, see Suibne, Suibhne
geis, gessa, 160–61, 210, 215, 217, 235, 236
gender, 60–61, 66–7, 68–70, 77, 83, 85, 87, 91, 211, 212–15
Genesis, Book of, 252–3
Genevra, 296–7
Genii Cucullati, 46
genome studies, 115, 145–6, 262, 302
gente buena, 303
Gentle Land, 110
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 264
George, St, 170
Gerald de Berri, 57
Germania, 31
Germanic languages, xiv, xvi
Germany, xiii, xiv, xix, xxv, 4, 22, 30, 39, 42, 44, 60, 70, 71, 83, 109; language, xii; scholarship, xxiv, 150
gessa, see geis
Ge-Themis, 33, 70
Giant’s Causeway, 231
‘Giants of Morvah, The’, 296–7
Giants of the Earth, 39
Gilbert, W. S., 107, 294
Gilfaethwy, 18, 71, 262, 280–81
Gimbutas, Marija, 70
Giraldus Cambrensis, 16, 21, 57–9, 91, 249, 298; quoted, 58
glam dícenn, 16
Glanicae, 12
Glanis, 11–12
Glanum, 11, 22
Glasgow, 24, 287
Glen Alden, 294
Glen Bolcáin, 247
Glen of the Deaf, 216
Glen Roy, 228
Glenasmole, 242
Glenbuck, 247
Glewlwyd Galfaelfawr, 268
Glwyddyn Saer, 43, 44, 139
Gloucester Castle, 270
Glyn Cuch, 272
Gobbán Saor, 43, 44
gobae, 43
God (Christian), 7, 238, 247, 248, 277
Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 70
Goethe, Johann von, xii
Goewin, 280–81
gof, gofan, 43
Gofannon, 43, 44, 71, 139, 262
Goibniu, 43, 44, 46, 139, 143
‘Goibniu’s feast’, see Fled Goibnenn
Goídel, xvi
Goídel Glas, 130, 145
Goídelc, 130
Goidelic languages, xvi, 145, 220
Golden Bough, The, 27–8, 51
Golden Legend, 245
Golden Pillars, king of the, 154–5
Goleuddyd, 268
Goll, King (W. B. Yeats’s creation), 250
Goll mac Doilb, 124
Goll mac Morna, 224, 227, 233
Gone with the Wind, 52–3
‘good god’, see Dagda
Goreu, 270
Gorias, 136
Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain, xiii, 30
Gospels, xxii, 88, 89, 111, 113, 165, 237, 288, 295; see also New Testament, Old Testament
Gradlon, Gralon, 285, 299–301
Graeco-Roman tradition, 12
Grail, 75
Grail Castle, 252
Gráinne, 80, 151, 222; narrative of, 234–7
Grampian Mountains, 10, 287
Grannus, 34
Grassholm, see Gwales
Graves, Robert, 51, 52
Gray, Thomas, xiii
Great Britain, see Britain
‘Great Queen’, 10, 83
Great Saint Bernard’s Pass, 39
Greece, 136, 154, 286
‘Greece, prince of’, 1
31
Greek art, xv
Greek commentators, xi, xviii, 26, 41
Greek language, xi, xxii, 285
Greek mythology, see classical mythology
Greeks (people), xviii, 4, 11–12, 41, 47
Gregory, Augusta Lady, xxv, 66
Green, Miranda, 71, 280
Greenan Hill, 88
Greene, David, 202
Grey of Macha, see Liath Macha
Grianán Meidbe, 88
Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm, 286
Gronw Pebyr, 80, 282–3
Groundhog Day, 101
Gruffydd, W. J., xxvii
Guaire 28
Guatemala, 33
Guénolé, 299, 300–301
Guest, Lady Charlotte, xxiv, 264, 267, 299
Guinevere, 295, 296
Gulliver’s Travels, 258
Gundestrup cauldron, xix–xx, 7, 17, 22, 23, 37, 38, 68, 75
Gwales, 120
gwawd, 26
Gwawl, son of Clud, 273–4, 279
Gwenhwyfar, 295
Gwent Is Coed, 274
Gwern, 276
Gwion Bach, 76, 266
Gwrhyr Gwastad Ieithoedd, 269
Gwri, 274
Gwyddno Garanhir, 267
Gwydion, 18, 71, 80, 262, 280–81
Gwyn Fryn, 277
Gwyn Gogoyw, 277
Gwynedd, 280, 283
Gwynn ap Nudd, 120, 223; etymology of, 263; Fionn mac Cumhaill, ties to, 263
Haakon the Good, 58
Hades, 40, 108, 121
Hadrian’s Wall, 12, 46, 74
Hafgan, 119–20, 272–3
Hag of Beare, see Cailleach Bhéirre
Hallowe’en, 93–4, 97–8; etymology of, 98; see also Samain
Hallstatt, xv, xviii, 17, 22, 47, 109
Ham (Biblical), 134
Hamel, see van Hamel
Hamp, Eric, 35, 119
Hanes Taliesin, 266–7
Harlech, 275, 276
harp, 35, 142
‘Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls, The’, 52
Harrison, William, xxv, 294
hazel trees, nuts, 11, 23, 138, 221, 254
healing, 6, 12, 15, 21, 27, 34, 35, 36, 43, 72, 73–4, 90, 138, 139, 154–5, 157, 210
heaven (Christian), 111, 119
Hebrew Bible, see Old Testament
Hebrew language, 131
Hebrew mythology, 128; see also Bible
Hebrews (ancient), 129
Hebrides, xiv, xvi, xvii, 8, 47, 50, 121, 134, 142, 198, 223, 233, 287, 289, 291, 293
Hebrides Overture, xiii
Hecate, 45
hell (Christian), 41, 119, 120, 270; linked to Annwfn, 120; Welsh name for, 120
Helvetia, Helvetii, 4
Henkin, Elissa R., 89
Henry II, 49, 57
Henry VIII, xviii, 48
Hephaestus, 3, 43–4
Hera, 70, 71
Heracles, Hercules, xxvi, 41–2, 155, 192, 193, 195, 224, 229; labours of, 155, 156, 269; Tower of, 302
Hermes, 41
hero’s portion, the, see champion’s portion
Herodotus, xx
Hesiod, 70, 127, 128
Hesperides, Garden of the, 154–5
Hibernia, 145–6, 148
Hiberno-English, 122, 230, 231
Hiberno-Latin, 114
Hiberno-Normans, 49; see also Anglo-Normans, Normans
hierogamy, 60
high king, see ard rí
Highlands, see Scottish Highlands
Hippolytus, 246, 252
Hippolytus (Euripides), 252
Historia Brittonum, 262–3
Historia Regnum Britanniae, 264
Historical Cycle, see Cycles of the Kings,
History of Ireland: The Heroic Period, xxiv
‘History of Taliesin’, see Ystoria Taliesin
Hochdorf, xix, 109, 113
Hogonange, 20
Holinshed, Raphael, 129
Hollantide, 97, 99–100
Holy Roman Emperor, 222
Homer, 63, 202, 227
homosexuality, 68
horse, imagery and symbolism, 6, 7, 12, 20–22, 39, 58, 62, 68, 154–5, 164, 170, 173–4, 179, 230, 242, 267, 273, 274, 275, 301; mutilated, 275
‘Hostel of the Quicken Trees, The’, see Bruidhean Chaorthainn
‘Hosting of the Sidhe, The’, 116
‘How Rónán Killed His Son’, see Fingal Rónáin
Howells, William, xxv
Howth, 161
huestia, 303
human sacrifice, xx, 10, 26, 28–9, 37, 38, 51–2, 97, 98, 99, 228
‘Hundred Battles’, see Conn Cétchathach
Hungary, xiv, 34, 67–8
Hunt, Robert, xxv, 295
Hurle, Henry, 30
hurling, 195, 224–5
Hy Brasil, 122, 123
Hychdwn Hir, 18, 281
Hyddwn, 281
Hyfaidd Hen, 273
Hyperboreans, 4
Hywel Dda, xxii, 68
Ibar Cinn Chon, 176
Iberian Peninsula, Iberia, xi, 145–6, 302
Ibor Cind Trácha, 215
Iceland, xxvi, 114, 127; Irish settlement there, 114
Iceni, 5, 83
Icovellauna, 11
Ilbrec, 16
Iliad, the, 32, 44, 63, 137, 168, 169, 229
imbas forosnai, 29, 226
Imbolc, 40, 90, 95, 100–102, 105; ewes’ lactation and, 100; variant forms, 100
Immram, 109
Imram, 109, 151
Imram Brain, xxiii, 109–14, 124, 150, 243; Christian intrusions, 110, 113; summarized, 109–12
Imram Curaig Maíle Dúin, 112–13, 115
Inanna, 60
Inber Colptha, 147
Inber Domnann, 133
Inber Scéne, 131, 147
incest, 159, 194
Inchcleraun, 88
Indech, 98
India, 30, 40, 58, 60, 166, 253
Indians (Native Americans), 30, 115