Myths and Legends of the Celts (Penguin Reference) (61 page)

Colmán,
246

Colooney,
84

Colptha,
147

Colum Cille, St,
29
,
90
,
132
,
288

Columbus, Christopher,
115
,
146

comedy,
184–5

Comyn, Micheál,
see
Coimín, Micheál

Conaire Mór,
56
,
159
,
160–62
,
171
;
lineage of,
159
;
narrative of,
160–62

Conall Anglonnach,
186

Conall Cernach,
162
,
170–71
,
177
,
178
,
179
,
180–81
,
182
,
183
,
186
,
194–5
,
198
,
200
,
211
,
216
,
218
;
characterized,
170–71
,
176
;
etymology of,
170–71
;
lineage of,
170–71

Conand,
132
,
134

Conarán,
75

Conchobar mac Nessa,
21
,
78
,
81–2
,
86
,
169
,
171
,
172
,
174–5
,
177
,
178
,
180
,
181–2
,
184
,
185–7
,
189
,
193
,
194
,
195
,
198
,
200
,
202
,
204
,
210
,
213
,
216
,
234
,
243
,
245
;
characterization of,
169
;
love for Deirdre,
81–2
;
pronunciation and spelling of name,
169

Condere,
200

Confessio
(St Patrick),
7

Cong,
140

Conga,
140

Congal,
251–2

Conmac,
87

Conmaicne Mara,
87

Conleth,
90

Conn (son of Lir),
17
,
163

Conn (son of Miodhchaoin),
155

Conn Cétchathach,
40
,
48
,
62–3
,
86
,
244
,
245
,
253
,
256

Connacht,
xix
,
23
,
55
,
56
,
59
,
61
,
85
,
87
,
118
,
148
,
161
,
163
,
167
,
169
,
170–71
,
173–7
,
181
,
188
,
203–9
,
227
,
244
;
bogus etymology of,
176

Connemara,
xiv
,
87

Connla,
199
,
200–201
,
202
,
232

Connla’s Well,
11
,
14

Constance, Lake,
42

Constantinople,
xxii

Conwy River,
267

cooking-spit of the women of Inis Fionnchuire (or Findchuire),
154–5

Cooley Peninsula,
see
Cuailnge

Corbridge,
42

Corc (son of Miodhchaoin),
155

Corentin,
299–300

Cork, County,
41
,
64
,
76
,
118
,
233

Corleck Hill,
40
,
44
,
90

Cormac Connloinges,
204

Cormac mac Airt,
56
,
86
,
151
,
223
,
233
,
234
,
236
,
244
,
245
;
narratives of,
253–5

Cormac mac Cuilennáin,
90
,
100–101

Cormac Ua Cuinn,
see
Cormac mac Airt

Cormac’s Glossary,
see
Sanas Cormaic

cormorant, imagery and symbolism,
15

Cornish language,
xi
,
xvi
,
xvii
,
xxiv
,
97
,
102
,
105
,
133
,
295
,
296
,
298

Cornish mystery plays,
295
,
298

Cornwall,
xviii
,
xxv
,
11
,
102
,
234
,
261
,
284
;
duchy of,
295
;
traditions of,
294–7

Corotiacus,
36

corpán sídhe
,
118

Corpre, Corpres,
161

Corrbolg
,
16

cosmology,
70
,
127
,
292

Coventina,
12
,
72
,
73

cow, imagery and symbolism,
13
,
22
,
166
,
170
,
175
;
see also
cattle

Cráebruad,
169
,
182

Creation (Biblical),
129

Crete,
22

crane, imagery and symbolism,
15–16
,
38

crane bag,
16

Crane Bag, The
(journal),
16

Credne,
43
,
46
,
139
,
143

Creirwy,
76

Crimthann Nia Náir,
189

Críth Gablach
,
54

Croker, Thomas Crofton,
xxv
,
256

Crom Crúaich,
98

Crom Dubh,
106

Cromm Darail and Cromm Deróil,
188

Cromwell, Oliver,
xxiv

Cross, T. P., and C. H. Slover,
185
,
243
;
quoted,
78

Crossakeel,
204

crow, imagery and symbolism,
45
,
84
,
216

Cruacha,
86

Cruachain,
59
,
86
,
124
,
169
,
180
,
203
,
211
,
212

Cruaidhin Catutchenn,
199

Crunniuc mac Agnomain,
21
,
85
,
172–4

Cú Roí mac Dáiri,
182
,
184
,
187–8
,
189–90
,
199
,
217

cù sith
,
304

Cualu,
161

Cúchulainn,
xxvi
,
xxvii
,
17
,
21
,
38
,
75
,
78
,
87
,
99
,
121
,
122
,
124
,
139
,
150
,
152
,
168
,
169–70
,
177
,
178
,
180–82
,
183–4
,
185–7
,
188–90
,
191–218
,
222
,
223
,
224
,
228
,
229
,
232
,
245
,
256
,
288
,
292
;
artistic representations of,
191
;
in beheading contest,
183–4
;
birth name Sétanta,
192
,
195–6
;
boyhood of,
195–7
;
characterizations of,
192
,
197
;
conception of,
193–4
;
courtship of Emer,
197–8
,
199
;
death of,
215–18
;
described,
180
,
188
,
196
;
domain of,
192
,
256
;
dreams of being whipped,
213
;
exempted from Macha’s curse,
174
;
his fool, of Ethiopian appearance,
188
;
fosterage of,
194–5
;
horses of,
199
;
names, interpretation,
192–3
,
195–6
;
origins of,
192–3
;
ríastrad
[battle fury, etc.],
179–80
,
195
,
196–7
,
208
,
211
,
214
;
salmon leap of,
197
,
198
;
‘wasting sickness’,
213–14
;
wife of,
199

cuckoldry,
111
,
166
,
190
,
234

Cuculain, Cucullin, Hiberno-English forms for Cúchulainn (q.v.)

Cuculain and His Contemporaries
,
xxiv

Cuailnge,
195
,
203
,
204
,
205–6
,
216

Culann,
192
,
195–6

Culhwch,
24
,
44
,
77
,
267–70
;
birth, origin of name,
268

Culhwch and Olwen
,
44
,
70
,
77
,
120
,
262
,
264
;
summarized,
267–70
;
critique of
267–8

Culloden Moor,
287
,
289

Cumberland Strait,
291

Cumhall,
224

Cunliffe, Barry,
302

Cunobelinus,
193

cup of truth,
253
,
254–5

Custennin,
269

cŵn annwfn
,
120
,
266

Cycles, literary, heroic, classification of,
see
Irish literature

Cycles of the Kings,
17
,
150
,
233
;
critique of,
245–6
;
narratives of,
243–58

Cymidiei Cymeinfoll,
76
,
275

Cymru
,
262

Cynan Meiriadog, St,
298

Cynddylig Cyfarwydd,
269

cynfeirdd
,
265

Cyntefin,
102

Czech Republic,
xiv

D— (cryptic deity),
9

DIL
,
see
Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of the Irish Language

DNA,
115
,
302

Dá Chich Anann
,
9
,
71

Da Derga,
74
,
161–2
;
see also
Togail Bruidne Da Derga

dà shelladh
, Scottish Gaelic phrase for ‘second sight’ (q.v.)