Myths and Legends of the Celts (Penguin Reference) (63 page)

Dundrum,
177
,
257

Dúnlang,
254

Dunquin,
61

Dunseverick,
207
,
249

Dürer, Albrecht,
42

Dursey Island,
41
,
118

Dydd Calan Mai,
see
Calan Mai

Dyfed,
xvi
,
21
,
22
,
79–80
,
119–20
,
271
,
272
,
277
,
278
,
279
,
280
,
281
;
borders, ancient vs modern,
272

Dying Gaul (statue), the,
19

Dylan,
44
,
265
,
281

eagle,
282–3

Earl, William,
xxv

Early Irish History and Mythology
, xxviii,
144

Early Medieval Ireland
,
52

Easal,
see
Assal

Easter Rising (1916),
191
,
222

Eastern Orthodox,
97

Eastern religion,
27

Éber,
147

Echaid Iarlaithe,
see
Eochaid of Dún Sobairche

Echtra Fergusa maic Léite,
255–8

Echtra Mac nEchach Muigmedóin,
63–4

Echtra Nerai,
87

Echtrae
,
109

Echtrae Cormaic
,
244
;
summarized,
253–5

Eddas,
xxvi
,
127
,
144

Edinburgh,
xiv
,
182
,
261
,
287

eel, imagery and symbolism,
23
,
84
,
207

Efnisien,
275
,
276–7

egret, imagery and symbolism,
15
,
38

Egypt,
129
,
145
;
Egyptians,
47
,
108

Eil Ton
,
281

Éire (name),
62

éiric
,
153

Éis Énchenn,
75

Eisirt,
258

eisteddfod,
xiii

Eithlinn,
see
Ériu

Eithne (alternative name for Boand),
14
,
166

Eithne (mother of Lug),
141

Eithne (mother of Máel Fhothartaig),
250

Eithne Ingubai (double of Emer?),
199
,
212

Eithne Tháebfhota,
254
,
255

Elatha mac Delbaíth,
140
,
141

Elcmar,
14
,
118
,
137
,
156
,
166

Ellan Vannin,
293

Elphin,
267

Elysian Fields, Elysium,
120
,
122

emain
,
85
,
110
;
etymology of,
174

Emain Ablach,
110
,
111
,
113
,
117
,
123
,
124
,
149
,
293

Emain Macha,
17
,
45
,
46
,
82
,
85
,
86
,
99
,
168
,
169
,
170
,
171
,
177
,
181
,
182
,
185
,
186–7
,
193
,
194
,
195
,
198
,
199
,
208
,
210
,
213
,
216
,
217
,
257
;
etymology of,
174

Emer,
79
,
179
,
182
,
184
,
197–8
,
199
,
201
,
202
,
213
,
214
,
215
,
216
,
217
,
228

Emigrant Experience: Songs of Highland Emigrants in North America, The
,
291

England,
23
,
25
,
30
,
106
,
107
,
277
,
287
,
295

English Channel,
290–91

English domination,
xxiii
,
257

English language,
xvi
,
xxiv
,
230
,
295

English people,
262

Eochaid/Eochu, name glossed,
21

Eochaid of Dún Sobairche, Echaid Iarlaith,
250–51
,
252

Eochaid Airem,
157
,
158
,
160

Eochaid Bélbuide,
256

Eochaid Bres,
see
Bres

Eochaid Feidlech,
46
,
86
,
160

Eochaid Inber,
213

Eochaid Iúil,
124
,
213
,
214

Eochiad mac Eirc,
133

Eochaid Mugmedón,
63

Eochaid Ollathair (alternative name for the Dagda),
14
,
137
,
166

Eógan Inbir,
124

Eógan mac Durthacht,
82

Eólas,
131

Eórann,
246
,
248
,
249

Ephorus,
xx

Epidaurus,
73

Epona,
20
,
21
,
79
,
274

Eponabus,
20

equites
,
xxi
,
26–7

Érainn,
61

Erannán,
146

Erc,
205
,
217–18

Éremón,
147–8

Erin,
62
,
147

Ériu,
10
,
41
,
46
,
61–3
,
141
,
147
;
mother of Bres,
141
;
stories of,
62–3

Erne waterway,
23
,
225

Ernmass,
85
,
173

Erriapus,
34

Erris,
164
,
165

esoteric knowledge,
see
knowledge (esoteric)

Espérandieu, Émile,
xix

Esus,
15
,
16
,
37
,
38
,
46
,
192

Esuvii,
38

Étang de Laval,
302

Étaín,
77–8
,
118
,
152
,
155–9
,
160
,
165

Étar,
156

Etarcomol,
206

Eterscél,
159
,
160

Ethal Anbúail,
167

Euhemerus, euhemerism,
xxvii

Euphrates,
60

Euripides,
252

Eusebius,
128

Evans, E. Estyn,
223

Excalibur,
199

‘Exile of the sons of Uisnech, The’,
see
Longas mac nUislenn

Exodus (Biblical),
129

Expugnatio Hibernica
,
57

Fachtna,
157–8

Fáilbe Finn,
214

Failinis,
154–5

fairy, fairies,
32
,
88
,
107–8
,
113
,
120
,
134
,
149
,
254
,
256–7
,
294
,
304
;
Galician equivalents,
303–4
;
‘king of’,
149
,
263
;
procession of,
303
;
‘queen of’,
88
,
290
;
solitary and trooping,
294
,
303

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
,
231

Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
,
256

fairy mound,
see
sídh

Faughart,
91

Fál
,
55
;
see also
Inis Fáil
,
Lia Fáil

Fálias,
136

family, Irish concepts of,
50–52

Fand,
79
,
199
,
213–15

‘Farewell to Alba’,
82

Feast of Lughnasa, The
,
105–6

Fedelm (the prophetess),
204

Fedelm Noíchrothach,
179
,
205

Fedlimid,
81

feis
,
xiii
,
98

feis Temrach, Temro
,
59–60

Femen, plain of,
sídh
of,
64
,
118

feminism,
66
,
77

Féni
,
220

Fenian (word), etymology of,
219–20

Fenian Cycle,
xxiii
,
18
,
20
,
76
,
78
,
82
,
113
,
122
,
123
,
136
,
150
,
152
,
166
,
228
,
243
,
245
,
288
;
alternative names for,
150
,
219–20
;
critique of,
222
;
narratives of,
223–42

Fenians (nineteenth-century political group),
220

Fénius Farsaid,
129–30
,
145

fenodyree,
294

Fer Caille,
134
,
161

Fer Doirich,
228–9

Fer Gair,
161

Fer Lí,
161

Fer Loga,
176–7

Fer Rogain,
161
,
162

Ferdia (Fionn’s servant),
233

Ferdiad,
87
,
199
,
208–9
;
combat at the ford,
209

Fergus (Niall’s brother),
63