308. Folk-lore Record, v. 29.
309. Lady Guest, iii. 134.
310. Dôn is sometimes held to be male, but she is distinctly called sister of Math (Loth, i. 134), and as the equivalent of Danu she must be female.
311. Loth, ii. 209.
312. See p. 60, supra, and Rh^ys, HL 90f.
313. Lady Guest, iii. 255; Skene, i. 297, 350.
314. For this Mabinogi see Loth, i. 117f.; Guest, iii. 189f.
315. Skene, i. 286.
316. Loth, ii. 229, 257; and for other references to Math, Skene, i. 281, 269, 299.
317. Skene, i. 296, 281.
318. Loth, ii. 297; Rh^ys, HL 276.
319. Skene, i. 264.
320. Rh^ys, HL 270. Skene, i. 430, 537, gives a different meaning to seon.
321. Skene, i. 264.
322. Loth, ii. 296.
323. Skene, i. 299, 531.
324. See p. 224, infra.
325. Guest, iii. 255; Morris, Celtic Remains, 231.
326. HL 283 f. See also Grimm, Teut. Myth. i. 131.
327. Loth, i. 240.
328. Stokes, US 34.
329. Myvyrian Archæol. i. 168; Skene, i. 275, 278 f.; Loth, ii. 259.
330. 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 Märchen is the Egyptian story of the Two Brothers, and that of Samson and Delilah is another old form of it.
331. Skene, i. 314, ii. 342.
332. HL 408; RC x. 490.
333. HL 237, 319, 398, 408.
334. HL 384.
335. HL 474, 424.
336. Loth, ii. 231.
337. Loth, i. 240.
338. Skene, i, 286-287.
339. Loth, ii. 263.
340. Skene, ii. 159; Rh^ys, HL 157; Guest, iii. 255.
341. Rh^ys, HL 161, 566.
342. Skene, i. 282, 288, 310, 543, ii. 145; Loth, i. 135; Rh^ys, HL 387.
343. Loth, i. 27 f.; Guest, iii. 7 f.
344. Rhiannon is daughter of Heveidd Hen or "the Ancient," probably an old divinity.
345. In the Mabinogi and in Fionn tales a mysterious hand snatches away newly-born children. Cf. ZCP i. 153.
346. Anwyl, ZCP i. 288.
347. Loth, ii. 247.
348. Skene, i. 264.
349. Ibid. i. 276.
350. Ibid. i. 310.
351. Loth, i. 166.
352. Hist. Brit. ii. 11, iii. 1, 20, iv. 3.
353. Cf. Anwyl, ZCP i. 287.
354. Skene, i. 431; Loth, ii. 278. Some phrases seem to connect Beli with the sea—the waves are his cattle, the brine his liquor.
355. Loth, ii. 209, 249, 260, 283.
356. Geoffrey, Brit. Hist. iv. 3. 4.