Patai, Raphael, 230
Patterson, Nerys, 101, 103, 104
Patrick, St, xvii, xxiii, xxvii, 7, 19, 29, 50, 90, 106, 165, 219, 226, 237, 238–9, 240, 244
Paul the Hermit, 115
Pennant, Thomas, 289
Pentecost, 98
Perceval, 253, 298
Peronnik, 298
Perseus, 170, 193
‘Persia, king of’, 154–5
Persians, xx, 201, 232
Perthshire, 233
petasus, 33
Peter Simple, 232
Pezron, Paul-Yves, xii
Phaedra, 246, 252
phallic symbolism, 17, 19, 34, 44, 46, 53, 55, 103, 170, 232
phantom funeral, 303
‘Phantom’s Frenzy, The’, 62–3
Pharsalia, 108
Philomena, St, 89
Phoebus, 31
Phoenicia, 102
phynodderree, 294
Phynodderree, The, 294
physical evidence (archaeological), xviii, xix, 7, 42
Picts, 132, 265, 286
pig, imagery and symbolism, 153, 154–5, 161, 166, 170, 175–6, 202–3, 226, 254, 280–81
Pilgrim’s Progress, 113
Pirates of Penzance, 294–5
Pisear, 154–5
pixie, piskie, 295–6
Plain of Delights, 111
Plain of Sea, 110
Plain of Sport, 110, 111
Plebes Dei, 136
Pliny the Elder, 22, 27
Pluto, see Dis Pater
‘Poem Book of Fionn’, See Duanaire Finn
Poems of Ossian, The, xii, xxiv, 20, 220, 299
poetry, 7, 14, 16, 26, 40, 53, 64, 137, 138, 142, 147, 156, 170, 221, 222, 224, 235, 247, 265, 266, 267
‘poet’s execration’, 16
poisoned spear of Pisear, ‘king of Persia’, 154–5
Poland, xii, xvii
Polybius, xx, 221
polytheism, 8
Pomona, 97
‘popular antiquities’, 286
Popular Romances of the West of England, xxv, 295
Popular Tales of the West Highlands, xxv, 288
portal tomb, 30, 234
Portugal, xii
Poseidon, 137
Posidonius, xxi, 26, 174, 247
Potiphar’s wife, 253
Powys, 265
Prasutagus, 5
pre-Columbian travel to North America, 115
primogeniture, 50
Pritona, 11
Procolitia, 12
Profane Book of Irish Comedy, The, 230
programmes of action, xxix
‘Promise, Land of’, see Emain Ablach, Tír Tairngire
Propp, Vladimir, xxix
Prose Eddas, xxv
Protestantism, 231, 240
Provençal troubadours, 74
Provence, 11, 22, 36
Pryderi, 18, 22, 80, 272, 274, 277–81; death of, 281
pseudo-history, defined, 127–8
Ptolemy (geographer and astronomer), xxi, 128, 171, 192, 224, 293
púca, 304
Puck, 296
Purification (Christian feast day), 101
Puritans, 103
‘Pursuit of Diarmait and Gráinne, The’, see Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne
Pwyll (character), xxvii, 21, 79, 271–4, 278, 279
Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, 119, 264; summarized, 271–4
Pyrenees, 39
Pythagoras, 4, 27, 45
‘Q’ (nom de plume), 232–3
Q-Celtic, xvi, 97, 145
Quaker’s Island, 88
‘Quarrel Between Finn and Oisín, The’, 230, 232
Queen Mab, 88
‘queen of the fairies’, see fairy
quicken tree, see rowan
Quimper, 299, 300
ram, imagery and symbolism, xix, 19, 228
Rasharkin, 247
Rath of the Synods, 53
Rathcrogan, 203
Rathlin Island, 123, 133
raven, imagery and symbolism, 15, 81, 199, 206, 207, 214, 218
Red Book of Hergest, The, xviii, xxiv, 264
Red Branch Cycle, see Ulster Cycle
Redg, 207
Rees, Alwyn and Brinley, xxix, 99, 128, 144
Reims, 44
Reinheim, 109, 113
Reliques of Irish Poetry, xiii
remscél, remscéla, 81, 171, 202
Republicanism, Irish, 220
Researches in the South of Ireland, xxv
Revue Celtique, xxiv
Rhea, 70, 71
Rheged, 286; see also Uiren Rheged
Rhiannon, xxvii, 21–2, 66, 79–80, 264, 265, 272, 273–4, 277–80; antecedents of, 79; etymology of, 79
Rhiannon (Gruffydd), xxvii
Rhine, 39
Rhineland, 70
Rhône, Rhône Valley, 9; Upper Rhône, 221
Rhun, 267
Rhys, Sir John, xxvii
rí benn, 54
rí buiden, 54
rí bunaid cach cinn, 54
rí cóicid, 54
rí Temro, Temrach, 54
rí tuaithe, 53
Richis, 189
Rigantona, 21, 79
rígdomna, 51, 52
rigfhéinnid, 227
Rígru Rosclethan, 121
ring, symbolism, 24
ringforts, xviii, 22, 293, 304
Rinnal, 133
Risco, Vicente, 302
Ritona, 11
river deities, 8, 11, 13–14, 23
Riverdance, 7
Rivros, 104–5
Robin Goodfellow, 296
roc, 123
Roca Barraidh, 123
Roi Soleil, Le, 8
Roman alphabet, script, xvii, xxii
Roman de Brut, 264
Roman empire, xiv, xvii, xviii, xxii, 4, 19, 20, 26, 88, 146, 223, 298
Roman Catholicism, see Catholicism
Roman commentators, see classical commentators
Roman legions, xvii
Roman religion, xxi, xxix, 20, 30–31, 33, 34, 36, 234
Roman roads, xvii
Romanesque art, 69
Romance languages, xiv
Romania, 17, 40
Romano-Celts, 7, 11, 18
Romans (people), xi, xii, xvi, xviii, xxi, xxii, xxvii, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 20, 30–31, 32, 47, 67, 129, 261, 293, 302; in Ireland, 49
Rome, 4, 30, 39, 97, 286
Romeo and Juliet, 88
Rónán, Rónán mac Áeda, 246; narrative of, 250–53
Rónán, St, 246–7, 249
Roscommon, County, 59, 86, 88, 99, 124, 162, 169, 203, 212, 213
Rosh Hashanah, 95
Rosetta Stone, 75
Rosmerta, 34, 61, 71–2
Ross, Anne, 8, 17, 38, 41, 66, 228
Ross-shire, 289, 291
Round Table, 221
rowan (mountain ash, quicken tree), 29, 156, 217, 228, 229, 235–6; berries of, 235–6
Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of the Irish Language (DIL), 51, 54
Ruad Rofhessa, 137
Rúadán, 43, 44
Rúadán, Saint, 57
Ruadchoin, three, 161
Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, 50, 55
Rucht, 202–3
Rudiobus, 20–21
ruirí, 54
Ruirteach, 14
Russia, 104
Saarbrücken, 109
Saba, see Sadb
Sabbath, 95
Sabines, 36
Sablon, 11
Sadb, 20, 228–9
saga, sagas, xxvi
Sages, Saints and Storytellers, xxviii
Saingliu, see Dubh Sainglenn
Sainrith mac Imaith, 173
St –: alphabetized under saint’s name, e.g. Patrick, St
St Bride’s Church, 90
St Brigid’s Day, 90, 93
St Ives, 297
St Just, 296
St Michael’s Day, 106
St Mullins, 249
‘St Patrick�
��s Breastplate’, 19
sainthood, 88–92, 115
saints’ legends, 89, 245
Salisbury Plain, 30
salmon, imagery and symbolism, 11, 15, 23–4, 116, 124, 130, 225, 244, 254, 266
salmon leap, 197, 198
Salmon of Knoweldge, 225
salt mining, xv
Salthill, 123
Salzburg, xv
Salzkammergut, xv
Samain, Samhain, 21, 37, 80, 95, 96–100, 132, 167, 185, 212, 213, 226, 227; etymology of, 97; related forms, 97; see also Hallowe’en
Samhain (bogus deity), 98–9
Samildánach, 34, 139, 142, 297
Samonios, xix, 95
samurai, 100, 221
Sanas Cormaic (Cormac’s Glossary), 8, 46, 90, 100–101, 102
Sancta (epithet), 12
Sanskrit, 9
Santa Comaña, 303
Santiago de Compostela, 146
saol eile, an, 108
Saône, 8
Sarrebourg, 72
satyr, 294
Saxons, xiii, 244, 261, 298
scaltae, 114
Scandinavia, xiii, 6, 227, 290
Scáthach, 68, 75, 121, 197–9, 200, 201, 202, 208, 212
Scéla mucce Meic Dathó, 87; summarized, 174–7
Sceolang, 226, 229
Scholia Berensia, 37
Scota, Scotia, 129, 145, 147–8
Scoti, 129; Lebor Gabála name for Irish people, 148
Scotia (person), see Scota
Scotia (place), 148
Scotland, 16, 19, 22, 35, 43, 44, 56, 81, 82, 98, 102, 115, 120, 124, 129, 133, 164, 197–9, 200, 216, 235, 246, 251, 291; history of, 286–8; traditions of, 286–91
Scots language, xvi, xxiv, 287
Scotti (people), xvi, 129, 148, 286; origin of term, 148
Scottish Gaelic, xi, xii, xvi, xvii, xxiv, 15, 19, 22, 23, 44, 62, 97, 98, 99, 127, 134, 219, 223, 230, 240, 284, 285, 293, 295, 304; links to Old Irish, 286–7; traditions in Nova Scotia, 291–2; traditions in Scotland, 286–91
Scottish Highlands, xii, xvi, xvii, xxv, 8, 10, 18, 40, 43, 76, 148, 192, 222, 226, 228, 233, 284, 287; Clearances of, 287, 289, 291; history of, 287–8
Scottish Lowlands, xvi, xxiv, 261, 287
Scottish Parliament, 291
Scottish people, 148, 244
Scythia, 129, 132, 144, 182
Scythian Diana, 37
Scythians, xx, 37
sea deities, 14, 137, 255, 275; see also Lir, Manannán mac Lir, Neptune
Seaforth, Earl of, 289, 290
Sean-bhean Bhocht, 64
Searbhán, 235
Sechnesach, 10, 61
‘second sight’, 285, 288
Ségda Sárlbraid, 121
Segais, Well of, 11, 14
Segomo, 36
seideán sídhe, 118
Sein, isle of, 300
Seine, 8, 27, 72
Selene, 45
Semion, 133
Semitic peoples, 60
Sencha mac Ailella, 178–9, 181, 185–6, 187, 188, 194
Senchán Torpéist, 90, 170, 202
Senach Siaborthe, 213, 214
Sennett, Mack, 187
Septuagints, 129
Sequana, see Dea Sequana
Serglige Con Culainn, 78–9, 124; summarized, 212–15
Sétanta (Cúchulainn’s birth name), 192, 195–6, 224
Setantii, 192
seven pigs of Assal, king of the Golden Pillars, 154–5
severed heads, speaking, 210
Severin, Tim, 115
Severn River, 23, 24, 36, 138
Seville, 304
sexual intimacy, 10, 17, 20, 24, 48, 56, 59, 60–61, 84, 86, 90, 98, 111–13, 121, 141, 157–8, 159, 166, 170, 172, 198, 206, 215, 235, 241, 251, 252, 267, 270, 272, 273, 277, 281, 282, 300, 301, 303; see also marriage, sacral
sexuality, human, 17, 19, 21, 67, 73, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 86, 89, 101, 105, 130, 170, 189, 280, 294, 300
Sgrìob Chlann Uisnich, 292
Shakespeare, William, 88, 129
shaman, shamanism, 19, 27
Shan Van Vocht, 64
Shannon River, xxii, 11, 13, 169, 177, 228, 235, 244, 248, 276
Shaw, John, 127, 292
Shee (Manx), see sídh
Sheela-na-gig, 69–70
Sheppard, Oliver, 191, 215
Sheridan, Jim, 123
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, quoted, 245
Shrove Tuesday, 101
sí, see sídh
sianach, 19
Sicily, xxvii, 154–5
‘Sickbed of Cúchulainn, The’, see Serglige Con Culainn
sídh, 7, 116–19, 149, 152, 155, 159, 163, 164, 166, 203; archaeology of, 116; etymology of, 117; famous examples, 118; spelling of, 116; variant forms, 118–19
sídh chóra, sídh ghaoithe, 118
Sídh Nechtain, 14, 118
Siegfried, 193
Sile na gCioch, 69–70
Silent Valley, 216
silver branch, 110
Silver Cloud, plain of, 110
Silvery Land, 110
Simon Magus, 46
Sims-Williams, Patrick, 108, 117, 118–20, 121
sínach, 258
Sinann, 13, 14
Sinbad the Sailor, 114
Siôn, Llywelyn, 266
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 184
Sirona, 34, 72, 192
sìth, sìthean, 118
skin of the pig of King Tuis ‘of Greece’, 154–5
sky, symbolism and worship, 6, 8, 21, 38, 39
sky deity, 8
Skye, Isle of, 68, 75, 121, 198, 289
Slane, 6
slavery, xxi
Slavic languages, xiv
Sleeping Army motif, 233
Sliab Bladma, 148
Sliab Fúait, 226
Sliab Mis, 147
Sliab na mBan, 225
Slieve Bloom, 148
Slieve Felim, 62
Slieve Fuad, 226
Slieve Mish, 62, 147
Sligo, County, 84, 88, 107, 140, 169, 229, 235, 236
Slovakia, xiv
Slover, C. H., see Cross, T. P.
sluagh sídhe, slua sí, 303
sluaghlslua na marbh, 303
smith, smithing, 43–4, 90, 114, 139, 142, 195–6
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