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GWALCHMAI.
Nephew of King Arthur, 397, 401
GWAWL.
Rival of Pwylls for Rhiannons hand, 361, 362
GWENHWYVAR (gwenhoo-ivar).
Wife of King Arthur, 394
GWERN.
Son of Matholwch and Branwen, 368; a.s.sumes sovranty of Ireland, 370
GWION BACH. Son of Gwreang; put to stir magic cauldron by Ceridwen, 413; similar action to Finn, 413
GWLWLYD (goo-loolid).
The dun oxen of, 390
GWREANG (goore-ang).
Father of Gwion Bach, 413
GWRNACH (goor-nach).
Giant; the sword of the, 390
GWYDDNO GARANHIR.
Horses of, drink of poisoned stream, hence the stream Poison of the Horses of, 413; his son Elphin finds Taliesin, 414
GWYDION.
Son of Don; place in Cymric mythology taken later by the G.o.d Artaius, 349; nephew of Math, 378; the swine of Pryderi and, 378-380
GWYN AP NUDD.
A Cymric deity likened to Finn (Gaelic) and to Odin (Norse), 349; combat every May-day between Gwythur ap Greidawl and, 353, 388
GWYNEDD.
Math, lord of, 378
GWYNFYD.
Purity; the second of three concentric circles representing the totality of being in the Cymric cosmogony, in which life is manifested as a pure, rejoicing force triumphant over evil, 334
GWYTHUR AP GREIDAWL (VICTOR, SON OF SCORCHER).
Combat every May-day between Gwyn ap Nudd and, 353, 388
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HADES (or ANNWN).
The Magic Cauldron part of the spoils of, 410
HAMILCAR.
Defeat of, at Himera, by Gelon, 22
HAMITIC, THE.
Preserved in syntax of Celtic languages, 78
HAVGAN.
Rival of Arawn; mortally wounded by Pwyll, 357,358
HECATUS OF ABDERA.
Musical services of Celts (probably of Great Britain) described by, 58
HECATUS OF MILETUS.
First extant mention of Celts by, 17
HEILYN.
Son of Gwynn, 372
HEININ.
Bard at Arthurs court, 416
h.e.l.lANICUS OF LESBOS.
Celts and, 17
HERODOTUS.
Celts and, 17, 56
HEVYDD HEN.
Father of Rhiannon, 360
HIGH KINGS OF IRELAND.
Stone of Destiny used for crowning of, 105
HILL OF AIN.
Name of G.o.ddess Ain clings to, 128; Ain appears, on a St. Johns Night, among girls on, 128
HILL OF ALLEN.
Finns hounds, while returning to, recognise Saba, 266; Oisin returns to, 273; Finn returns to, 278; return of the Fianna to, to celebrate the wedding feast of Finn and Tasha, 295; Finn bears Grania as his bride to, 304
HILL OF KESHCORRAN. Finn bewitched by hags on, 277
HILL OF MACHA. Significance, 251
HISTORIA BRITONUM. See Nennius
HISTORIA REGUM BRITANI. See Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Furnished subject for Gorborduc and King Lear, 338; wonderful success of, translated by Wace into French, by Layamon into Anglo-Saxon, 338, 339
HOMER. His gloomy picture of the departed souls of men conducted to the underworld, 79, 80; reference to, 147
HORSES OF MANANAN. White-crested waves called, 125
HOUND OF ULSTER. See Cuchulain, 217, 233; element in Gaelic names, 184
