DEIRDRE (deerdree). 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, Csar 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
DEOCA. 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 ODYNA). Follower of Finn mac c.u.mhal, 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 Finns, 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 Dacars steed, 293-295; fight with the Knight of the Well, 294; love-story of Grania and, 296-304
DERRYVARAGH, LAKE. Aoifes cruelty to her step-children at, 139-142
DESA. Foster-father of Conary Mor, 167
DEWY-RED. Horse of Conall of the Victories, 233
DIALOGUES. Reference to Oisin-and-Patrick and Keelta-and-Patrick, 289
DIANCECHT (deean-kecht). Physician to the Danaans, 108
DINEENS IRISH DICTIONARY. Reference to, 164, 165
DINNSENCHUS (din-shencus). Ancient tract, preserved in the Book of Leinster, 85
DINODIG. Cantrev of, over which Llew and Blodeuwedd reigned, 382, 383
DINRIGH (dinree). Maon slays Covac at, 153
DIODORUS SICULUS. A contemporary of Julius Csar; describes Gauls, 41, 42; Pythagoras and, 80
DIS. Pluto, equivalent, 88
DITHORBA. Brother of Red Hugh and Kimbay, slain by Macha, 151; five sons of, taken captive by Macha, 151, 152
DIURAN THE RHYMER. German and, companions of Maeldun on his wonderful voyage, 313; returns with piece of silver net, 331
DODDER, THE RIVER, 175
DOLMENS Cromlechs, tumuli and, explanation of, 53
DON (_o_ as in bone).
A Cymric mother-G.o.ddess, 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 Og, 290
DONNYBROOK. Da Dergas hostel at, 170
DOOCLOONE. Ailill slain in church of, 310; Maeldun 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 G.o.d 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 Csar regarding, 84; cosmogonic teaching died with their order, 95
DUBLIN. Conary goes toward, 167; Conarys 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 (ecnay). The G.o.d 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
EISIRT. 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 Arthurs court, 415; the sequel, 415-417
EMAIN MACHA. The Morrigan pa.s.ses 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 Cuchulains 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; Conalls brain ball laid up at, 240
EMANIA. 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 Cuchulains 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
ENCYCLOPDIA BRITANNICA. Article on Arthurian saga in, 341
ENID. The tale of Geraint and, 399, 400
EOCHY (yeohee). 1. Son of Erc, Firbolg king, husband of Taltiu, or Telta, 103.