Legends & Romances of Brittany

Unbroken Vow, The. A story of Broceliande, 60-63

United States, The. The Bretons aid, in the War of Independence, 238

Urien. A Welsh chieftain;

Taliesin the bard of, 21, 22

Alain, Count of Brittany, defeated in battle at, 28

Valley of Blood. A place in hell;

in the story of the Baron of Jauioz, 146

Vannes.

I. A former county of Brittany;

mentioned, 23, 180

II. The city;

the dialect of, 16 and n.;

the ancient city of the Veneti, 17;

the Teus or Bugelnoz of, 100;

in the story of Comorre the Cursed, 183;

the château of Suscino near, 209;

the abbey of St Gildas near, 248;

St Convoyon educated at, 335;

St Patern the patron saint of, 347;

St Patern Bishop of, 348;

the legend of the founding of the church of St Patern at, 348;

St Pol of Léon in, 364

Veneti. A Gallic tribe which inhabited Brittany, 16, 17

‘Venus, The.’ An image at Quinipily, 381

Vilaine. A river in Brittany, 335

Villars, Abbé de. A French priest and writer;

cited, 64

Villecheret. A village in Brittany;

the head-dress of the women of, 375

Villemarqué. See Hersart de la Villemarqué

Vine, The. Said to have been introduced into Brittany by Gradlon, 189

Virgin Mary, The. In a Breton legend, 380

Vitré. A Breton château, 208

Vivien. An enchantress, in Arthurian legend;

meets Merlin in Broceliande, and afterward enchants him there, 65-69;

as presented in Arthurian legend and in other romances, 69;

may be classed as a water-spirit, 69;

the probable purpose of the story of Merlin and, in Arthurian legend, 70;

of Breton origin, and does not appear in British myth, 256;

gives Arthur the sword Excalibur, 256-257;

Sir Lancelot stolen and brought up by, 257

quoted, 54;

and the fountain of Baranton, 71

419

mentioned, 258

Wales. Legend of the submerged city in, 187, 188;

the harp anciently the national instrument of, 229;

Bretons send an expedition to, to help Glendower, 234;

claimed as the birthplace of Arthurian romance, 254;

helped the development of Arthurian romance, 255;

Tristrem sojourns in, and wins fame there, 270;

mentioned, 59, 343

War of Independence, American. Bretons take part in, against England, 238

War of the Two Joans, The. A war waged for the succession to the Dukedom of Brittany, 31-32, 35-36

Ward of Du Guesclin, The. A Du Guesclin legend, 33-35

Washing Woman, The. An evil spirit of the Scottish Highlands, 100

Wedding Customs. In Brittany, 385-386

See also Marriage

Wells, Holy. In Brittany, 381-382

Welsh. The language;

the Breton tongue akin to, 15

Were-wolf. A man transformed into a wolf;

the prevalence, origin, and forms of the superstition, 289-292;

a were-wolf story, 284-289

Westminster. The city;

in the story of Tristrem and Ysonde, Ysonde carried to, for trial, 270

Wexford. A county of Ireland;

emigration from, to Brittany, 22

Wheel of Fortune, The. A name wrongly given to part of the apparatus of the sacring bell, 380

White Church. A church in Tréguier;

in the story of the Foster-brother, 170, 171

William II. Duke of Normandy (William the Conqueror);

Conan II of Brittany and, 27, 28-29;

Bretons accompany, on his expedition against England, 232, 233

William, Count. The name of the nobleman to whom Marie of France dedicated her Fables, identified with Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, 283-284

Winds, The. Play a large part in Breton folk-lore, 162;

a wind-tale, 163-167

Wine. St Germain exchanges for wax from the monks of Dol, 19;

a wine festival in honour of King Gradlon, 189

Women. In early communities, magical power often the possession of, 246;

generally the conservators of surviving Druidic tradition, 247;

St Goezenou’s antipathy to, 369;

costume of the women of Brittany—see Costume and Head-dress

Wood of Chestnuts. Mentioned in a story of Morvan, 217

Yeun, The. A morass of evil repute, 102-103;

a story of, 103-105

York. The city, in England;

St Samson ordained at, 349

Youdic, The. A part of the Yeun peat-bog, 103;

a story of, 103-105

Youghal. A town in Ireland;

Azénor and the infant Budoc washed ashore at, 355;

Budoc becomes abbot of the monastery at, 356

Youghal, Abbot of. In the legend of St Budoc, 355, 356

Youth who did not Know. The story of, 106-115

Ys, or Is. A submerged city of legend;

the legend of, 184-188;

such a legend common to several Celtic races, 187;

Giraldus Cambrensis and the legend of, 187-188

Yseult. See Ysonde

Ysonde, or Yseult. Daughter of the King of Ireland;

some incidents in her story paralleled in the ballad of Bran, 228;

the story of Tristrem and, 257-274;

the story of Tristrem and, claimed as a sun-myth, 274-275

420

in the story of Tristrem and Ysonde, 271, 273

Yves. Husband of Azénor the Pale, 361-363

Yvon. A youth;

in the story of the Castle of the Sun, 131-137

Yvonne. A maiden;

in the story of the Castle of the Sun, 131-137

Zimmer, H. Cited, 278