Death. The Celtic conception of, 89;

names of Balor and Bilé occur as god of, 130

Debility of the Ultonians, The. Caused by Macha's curse, 179, 180;

manifested on occasion of Maev's famous cattle-raid of Quelgny (Tain Bo Cuailgné), 180

Decies. Son of King of the, wooes Light of Beauty (Sgeimh Solais), 304

Dec´tera. Mother of Cuchulain by Lugh, 123;

daughter of Druid Cathbad, 182;

her appearance to Conor mac Nessa after three years' absence, 182;

her gift of a son to Ulster, Cuchulain, by Lugh, 182

Dee, The River. Now the Ford of Ferdia, 211

Deirdre (deer´dree). Daughter of Felim, 196;

Druid Cathbad draws her horoscope, 197;

Conor decides to wed when of age, 197;

nursed by Levarcam, 197;

her love for Naisi, 198;

carried off by Naisi, 198;

returns with Naisi to Ireland, 198-200;

forced to wed Conor, she dashes herself against a rock and is killed, 201;

the tales of Grania and, compared, 296-304

Deities. The Celtic, Cæsar on, 87, 88;

popular and bardic conception of Danaan, 104

Demetrius. Visit to Britain of, 355;

mentions island where “Kronos” was imprisoned in sleep while Briareus kept watch over him, 355

Demna. Otherwise Finn.

Birth of, 255

Deo´ca. A princess of Munster;

Children of Lir and, 142

Dermot MacKerval. Rule of, in Ireland, and the cursing of Tara, 47, 48;

arrests and tries Hugh Guairy, 48;

dream of wife of, 48

Dermot of the Love Spot (Dermot O'Dyna). Follower of Finn mac Cumhal, lover of Grania, bred up with Angus at palace on Boyne, 123;

the typical lover of Irish legend, 123;

slain by wild Boar of Ben Bulben, 123, 301, 302;

friend of Finn's, 261;

described as a Gaelic Adonis, 290;

Donn, father of, 290;

Roc and, 290, 291;

how Dermot got the Love Spot, 292;

adventure with Gilla Dacar's steed, 293-295;

fight with the Knight of the Well, 294;

love-story of Grania and, 296-304

Derryvar´agh, Lake. Aoife's cruelty to her step-children at, 139-142

Desa. Foster-father of Conary Mōr, 167

Dewy-Red. Horse of Conall of the Victories, 233

Dialogues. Reference to Oisīn-and-Patrick and Keelta-and-Patrick, 289

Diancecht (dee´an-kecht). Physician to the Danaans, 108

Dineen's Irish Dictionary. Reference to, 164, 165

Dinnsenchus (din-shen´cus). Ancient tract, preserved in the “Book of Leinster,” 85

Din´odig. Cantrev of, over which Llew and Blodeuwedd reigned, 382, 383

Dinrigh (din´ree). Maon slays Covac at, 153

Diodor´us Sic´ulus. A contemporary of Julius Cæsar;

describes Gauls, 41, 42;

Pythagoras and, 80

Dis. Pluto, equivalent, 88

Dithor´ba. Brother of Red Hugh and Kimbay, slain by Macha, 151;

five sons of, taken captive by Macha, 151, 152

Diur´an the Rhymer. Germān and, companions of Maeldūn on his wonderful voyage, 313;

returns with piece of silver net, 331

Dodder, The River, 175

Dolmens Cromlechs, tumuli and, explanation of, 53

Dōn (o as in “bone”).

A Cymric mother-goddess, representing the Gaelic Dana, 348, 349;

Penardun, a daughter of 349;

Gwydion, son of, 349;

genealogy set forth, 350

Donn. 1. Mac Midir, son of Midir the Proud, 285.

2. Father of Dermot;

gives his son to be nurtured by Angus Ōg, 290

Donnybrook. Da Derga's hostel at, 170

Doocloone. Ailill slain in church of, 310;

Maeldūn at, 311

Dowth. Tumulus of, 74

Druidism. Its existence in British Isles, Gaul, &c., 82;

magical rites of, belief in survived in early Irish Christianity, 83

Druids. Doctrines of, 37, 39;

regarded as intermediaries between God and man, 42;

the sovran power in Celtica, 46;

suppressed by Emperor Tiberius, 62;

Aryan root for the word discovered, 82;

testimony of Dion Chrysostom to the power of the, 83;

religious, philosophic and scientific culture superintended by, record of Cæsar regarding, 84;

cosmogonic teaching died with their order, 95

Dublin. Conary goes toward, 167;

Conary's foster-brothers land at, for raiding purposes, 169

Dupaix. Reference to cup-and-ring markings in book “Monuments of New Spain,” 68

Dyfed. Pryderi and Manawyddan at, 374;

Gwydion and Gilvaethwy at, 379

Dylan (“Son of the Wave”). Son of Arianrod;

his death-groan the roar of the tide at mouth of the river Conway, 380

E

Eagle of Gwern Abwy, The, 392

Eber Donn (Brown Eber). Milesian lord;

his brutal exultation and its sequel, 136;

reference to, as one of Milesian leaders, 148

Eber Finn (Fair Eber). One of the Milesian leaders, 148;

slain by Eremon, 148

Ecne (ec´nay). The god whose grandmother was Dana, 103

Egypt-ian. The ship symbol in the sepulchral art of, 75;

Feet of Osiris, symbol of visitation, in, 77;

ideas of immortality, 78-87;

human sacrifices in, abolished by Amasis I., 86

Eis´irt. Bard to King of Wee Folk, 247;

his visit to King Fergus in Ulster, 247

Elphin. Son of Gwyddno;

finds Taliesin, 414;

his boast of wife and bard at Arthur's court, 415;

the sequel, 415-417

Em´ain Mach´a. The Morrigan passes through, to warn Cuchulain, 127;

founding of, with reign of Kimbay, 150;

equivalent, the Brooch of Macha, 150;

Macha compels five sons of Dithorba to construct ramparts and trenches of, 151, 152;

appearance of Dectera in fields of, 182;

Cuchulain drives back to, 186;

news of Cuchulain's battle-fury brought to, 194;

Fergus returns to, 201;

boy corps at, go forth to help Cuchulain, 214;

Ulster men return to, with great glory, 225;

Conall's “brain ball” laid up at, 240

Ema´nia. Women of, meet Cuchulain, 194;

sacrifice of boy corps of, avenged by Cuchulain, 214;

Cuchulain takes farewell of womenfolk of, 231.

See Emain Macha

Emer. Daughter of Forgall;

wooed by Cuchulain, 185-186;

Cuchulain seeks and carries off, 195;

becomes Cuchulain's wife, 195;

learns of the tryst between Cuchulain and Fand, 226, 228;

Cuchulain sees her corpse in his madness, 230

Enamelling. Celts and art of, 30

Encyclopædia Britannica. Article on Arthurian saga in, 341

Enid. The tale of Geraint and, 399, 400

Eochy (yeo´hee). 1. Son of Erc, Firbolg king, husband of Taltiu, or Telta, 103.

2. King of Ireland;

reference to appearance of Midir the Proud to, on the Hill of Tara, 124;

High King of Ireland, wooes and marries Etain, 157, 158;

Midir appears to, and challenges to play chess, 161, 162

Eph´orus. Celts and, 17, 36

Erc. King of Ireland, Cuchulain's foe, 228-233;

mortally wounds the Grey of Macha, 232