Unbroken Vow, The. A story of Broceliande, 60-63
United States, The. The Bretons aid, in the War of Independence, 238
Val-ès-Dunes. A place in Brittany;
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;
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
‘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
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;
War of Independence, American. Bretons take part in, against England, 238
Ward of Du Guesclin, The. A Du Guesclin legend, 33-35
Washing Woman, The. An evil spirit of the Scottish Highlands, 100
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
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
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
York. The city, in England;
St Samson ordained at, 349
Youghal. A town in Ireland;
Azénor and the infant Budoc washed ashore at, 355;
Budoc becomes abbot of the monastery at, 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
Ysonde of the White Hand. Daughter of Hoel I, Duke of Brittany;
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