Edmund. King of East Anglia;
mentioned, 284
Eliduc, The Lay of. One of the Lais of Marie de France, 305-313
Élorn. A river in Brittany, 19
Elphin. Son of the Welsh chieftain Urien;
taught by Taliesin, 21
Elves. In Teutonic mythology, diminutive spirits;
the fairy race of Celtic countries may have been confused with, 87
Emerald Coast, The. A district in the southern portion of Brittany, 13
England.
I. The country;
loses its ancient British name, which becomes that of Brittany, 17;
Bretons who accompanied William the Conqueror receive land in, 232;
Bretons invade, from Wales, 234;
claimed as the birthplace of Arthurian romance, 254;
King Arthur moves against the Emperor Lucius’ threatened invasion of, 275;
the existence of King Arthur credited in, in the twelfth century, 278;
Marie de France lived in, 283
II. The State;
supports John of Montfort’s claim to Brittany, 31
Enora. See St Enora
Equitan, The Lay of. One of the Lais of Marie de France, 313-317
Erdeven. A town in Brittany;
megaliths at, 42
Ermonie. A mythical kingdom, in the story of Tristrem and Ysonde;
Roland Rise, Lord of, 258;
Duke Morgan becomes Lord of, 259;
Tristrem returns to, 261
Ernault, E. Cited, 16 n.
Eryri, Mount. King Arthur slew the giant Ritho upon, 277
Escoublac. A town in Brittany, 373
Essé. A village in Brittany;
the dolmen of, 53
Estaing, Pierre d’. A French alchemist;
mentioned, 175
Étang de Laval. A lake, supposed to cover the site of the submerged city of Ys, 185
Eufuerien. King of Cumbria, 357
Ewen. Son of Eufuerien, King of Cumbria, 357
Excalibur. King Arthur’s miraculous sword;
given to Arthur in Brittany, 256-257;
Arthur kills the giant of Mont-Saint-Michel with, 277;
mentioned, 280
Exeter. The city;
mentioned, 307
F
Fables. Of Marie de France, 283
Fairies. Credited with the erection of the megalithic monuments, 49-52;
magically imprisoned in dolmens, trees, and pillars, 52;
the fairy lore of Brittany bears evidence of Celtic influence, 54;
the fairies of Brittany hostile to man, 54, 55-56, 85;
the Church the enemy of, 56;
what derived from, in folk-lore, 73-74;
the varying conceptions of, 73;
the Bretons’ ideas of, 74-75;
the fairies of the houles, 75, 88;
the fairies’ distaste for being recognized, and stories illustrating this, 82;
bestow magical sight, 82-83;
and changelings, 83;
prone to take animal, bird, and fish shapes, 83-84;
probable reasons for the fairies’ malevolence, 85-86;
origin of the fairy idea, 85-87;
may have originally been deities, 87;
in Brittany, conceived as of average mortal height, 87;
the Margots la fée, a variety of, 88;
a story illustrating fairy malevolence, 88;
the fairy-woman in the Lay of Graelent, 322-328
Fairyland. Graelent enters, 326;
identified with the Celtic Otherworld, 327;
a place of death and remoteness, 328
Fairy-wife. A folk-lore motif, 327
Falcon, The. A ballad, 196-198
Farmer, Captain George. Commander of the Quebec;
in a Breton ballad, 238
Fays. See Fairies
February. The month;
personified in the story of Princess Starbright, 128-129
Félix. Bishop of Quimper, 337
Feuillet, Octave. A French novelist;
mentioned, 206
Finette Cendron (‘Cinderella’). Mme d’Aulnoy’s story of;
mentioned, 144
Fions. A name sometimes given to the fairies in Brittany, occurring also in Scottish and Irish folk-lore, 74
Fire-goddess. St Barbe probably represents the survival of a, 334
Fireplaces in Breton churches, 380-381
Fisherman and the Fairies, The. The story of, 80-83
Flamel, Nicolas. A French alchemist;
mentioned, 175
Folk-tales. Of Brittany, 156-172
Fontenelle, Guy Eder De. A Breton leader, associated with the Catholic League, 229-232
Förster, Professor Wendelin. And the origin of Arthurian romance, 254
Forth. A river in Scotland;
mentioned, 357
Foster-brother, The. The story of, 167-172
Foucault, Jean. A Breton peasant;
a story of, 244
Fougères. A town in Brittany;
had a reputation as the dwelling-place of sorcerers, 242
Fouquet, Nicolas. A French statesman;
imprisoned in the castle of Nantes, 205
Four Sorrows, The Lay of the, or The Lay of the Dolorous Knight. One of the Lais of Marie de France, 328-331
Fragan. Governor of Léon, father of St Winwaloe, 370
France.
I. The country;
manners and fashions of, spread in Brittany, 30;
the were-wolf superstition prevalent in, 291
II. The State;
intervenes in the conflict between Brittany and Normandy, 30;
Brittany annexed by, under Francis I, 36
Francis I. King of France;
annexes Brittany to France, 36;
and Françoise de Foix, the Countess of Châteaubriant, 207;
gives the château of Suscino to Françoise de Foix, 210
Francis I. Duke of Brittany, 36
Franks. The people;
exercised a nominal suzerainty over Brittany, 23;
Morvan fights with, 216-221;
“Morvan will return to drive the Franks from the Breton land,” 224
Franks, King of The. In Villemarqué’s Barzaz-Breiz;
and Morvan’s fight with the Moor, 218-220;
Morvan fights with, 220-221;
the character drawn in the style of the chansons de gestes, 224
Fredegonda. Queen of Neustria;
mentioned, 31
Frémiet, Emmanuel. A French sculptor;
mentioned, 206
Frêne. A maiden;
in the Lay of the Ash-tree, 318-320
G
Gaidoz, H. Cited, 212 n.
Garb of Old Gaul, The. A song;
mentioned, 237
Gargantua. A mythical giant;
the erection of the megalithic monuments ascribed to, 49
Garlon, The Clerk of. In a legend of the Marquis of Guérande, 199-202
Gavr’inis (‘Goat Island’). An island in the Gulf of Morbihan;
the tumulus at, 48;
nains’ inscriptions on the megaliths of, 98
Gawaine, Sir. One of King Arthur’s knights;
mentioned, 357
Geber. An Arabian alchemist;
mentioned, 175
Geoffrey II (Plantagenet). Duke of Brittany, 30
Geoffrey of Monmouth. An English chronicler;
the presentation of Vivien in his work, 69;
and the presentation of Merlin, 70;
acknowledged a Breton source for his work, 255
Gildas. A British chronicler;
fellow-pupil with Taliesin at the school of Cattwg, 21;
St Keenan associated with, 343;
St Bieuzy a friend and disciple of, 345;
the bell of, in the chapel at La Roche-sur-Blavet, 345;
St Bieuzy dies in the presence of, 346;
St Pol of Léon a fellow-student of, 364
Girdle. Superstition of the, 302
Glain Neidr. The sea-snake’s egg or adder’s stone, used in Druidic rites, 247;
Héloïse, represented as a sorceress, said to have possessed, 252
Goezenou. A village in Brittany;
the cheeses petrified by St Goezenou preserved in the church of, 369;
holy well at, 382
Goidelic Dialect. A Celtic tongue, 15
Golden Bell, Château of the. In the story of the Youth who did not Know, 111-114
Golden Bell, Princess. In the story of the Youth who did not Know, 110-115
Golden Herb. A plant supposed in Druidical times to possess magical properties, 247-248
Goulven. A village in Brittany;
historical tablet in the church of, 225
Gradlon Meur. A ruler of Ys;
in the legend of the city, 185-186;
the statue of, at Quimper, 188-189;
supposed to have introduced the vine into Brittany, 189
Graelent, The Lay of. One of the Lais of Marie de France, 320-328
Grail. Legend of the;
a parallel incident in the Lay of Gugemar and, 301-302
Grallo. King of Brittany;
and St Ronan, 367
Grand Mont. An eminence upon which St Gildas built his abbey, 249
Grand Troménie. The special celebration of the Pardon of the Mountain held every sixth year, 379-380
Granville. A town in Brittany;
women’s costume in, 374
Groabgoard. An image at Quinipily, 381
Guémené. A town in Brittany, 334
Guérande. A town in Brittany, 198
Guérande. Louis-François, Marquis of;
the story of, 199-202
Gugemar, The Lay of. One of the Lais of Marie de France, 292-302
Guic-sezne. A town in Brittany, 370
Guildeluec. Wife of Eliduc, 306-313
Guillardun. A princess;
in the Lay of Eliduc, 307-313
Guillevic, A. Cited, 16 n.
Guimiliau. A town in Brittany;
the Calvary at, 384-385
Guingamp. A town in Brittany, 229
Gwen. Mother of St Winwaloe, 370
Gwenaloe (‘He that is white’). The Breton name for St Winwaloe, 370
Gwenn-Estrad. A place in Wales;
battle of, 22
Gwennolaïk. A maiden of Tréguier;
in the story of the Foster-brother, 167-172
Gwezklen. The Breton name for Du Guesclin, 32
See Du Guesclin
Gwindeluc. A monk, a disciple of St Convoyon, 335
H
Hainault. A Belgian province;
mentioned, 328
Harp, The. Not now popular in Brittany, but in ancient times one of the national instruments, 228-229
Hatchet of Brittany, The. An appellation of Morvan, 221
Haute-Bécherel. A town in Brittany;
pagan temple at, 342
Head-dress. Of the women of the Escoublac district, 374;
of the women of Ouessant, 374;
of the women of Villecheret, 375;
of the men of Brittany, does not vary much, 375;
headgear of the men of Plougastel, 375;
of the women of Muzillac, 376;
of the women of Pont l’Abbé and the Bay of Audierne, 376;
of the women of Morlaix, 376
See also COIFFES
Helena, Lady. Niece of Duke Hoel I of Brittany;
Heloïse. An abbess, beloved of Abélard;
the story of Abélard and, 248-253;
in a Breton ballad represented as a sorceress, 250-253
Hénan. Manor of, in Brittany, 364
Henderson, George. Cited, 52
Hennebont. A Breton château, 206
Henry II. King of England, 30;
identified as the king to whom Marie of France dedicated her Lais, 284
Henry III. King of England;
mentioned, 284
said to be the father of Taliesin, 21
Hersart de la Villemarqué, Vicomte. Writer on Breton legendary lore;
his poem on Nomenoë, 23;
his ballad of Alain Barbe-torte, 25-27;
and a story of the Clerk of Rohan, 190 n.;
his Barzaz-Breiz, 211-212;
stories from his Barzaz-Breiz, 212-237;
indications of the source of his matter, 224-225;
and the story of Fontenelle, 230;
and the story of the Combat of Saint-Cast, 237;
Highlanders. Scottish;
in the story of the Combat of Saint-Cast, 237
Hildwall. A pious man of Angers;
St Convoyon lodges with, 336
Hodain. A dog;
in the story of Tristrem and Ysonde, 267
Hoel V. Duke of Brittany, 30
Holger. A half-mythical Danish hero;
mentioned, 212
Holmes, T. Rice. Cited, 245 n.
Holy Land. See Palestine
Houles. Caverns;
the Bretons suppose fairies to inhabit, 75
Huon de Méry. A thirteenth-century writer;
on the fountain of Baranton, 71
Hurlers, The. A Cornish legend;
mentioned, 44