Myths and Legends of the Celts (Penguin Reference) (72 page)

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