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ST. BENEN. A companion of St. Patrick, 239
ST. FINNEN. Irish abbot; legend concernin Tuan mac Carell and, 97
ST. PATRICK. Record of his mission to Ireland, 51; Cascorach and, referred to in the Colloquy of the Ancients, 119; Brogan, the scribe of, 119; Ethn aged fifteen hundred years old at coming of, 144; Ethn baptized by, 144; summons Cuchulain from h.e.l.l, 238, 239; name Talkenn given by Irish to, 275; met by Keelta, 282; Irish legend and, 283
SALMON OF KNOWLEDGE. See Fintan
SALMON OF LLYN LLYW (lin li-oo), THE, 392
SAMNITE WAR, THIRD. Coincident with breaking up of Celtic Empire, 26
SANCHAN TORPEST. Chief bard of Ireland; and the Tain, 234-238
SAWAN. Brother of Kian and Goban, 110
SCANDINAVIA. Dolmens found in, 53; symbol of the feet found in, 77
SEMION. Son of Stariat, settlement in Ireland of; Firbolgs descended from, 100
SERA. Father of Partholan, 96; father of Starn, 98
SETANTA. Earliest name of Cuchulain, 183; the little pupil, harries Maevs hosts, 208
SGEIMH SOLAIS (skayv sulish) (Light of Beauty).
Daughter of Cairbry, wooed by son of King of the Decies, 304
SHANNON, THE RIVER. Myth of Sinend and the Well of Knowledge accounts for name of, 129; Dithorbas five sons flee over, 151; mac Cecht visits, 175; Dermot and Grania cross Ford of Luan on the, 299
s.h.i.+P SYMBOL, THE. 71-76
SICULUS, DIODORUS. A contemporary of Julius Csar; describes Gauls, 41, 42
SIDHE (shee), or FAIRY FOLK. Tumulus at New Grange (Ireland) regarded as dwelling-place of, 69
SILVA GADELICA. Reference to Mr. S.H. OGradys work, 250, 276, 281
SINEND. G.o.ddess, daughter of Lirs son, Lodan; her fatal visit to Connlas Well, 129
SIGN, LLEWELLYN. Welsh bard, compiler of Barddas, 332
SKATHA. A mighty woman-warrior of Land of Shadows, 187; instructs Cuchulain, 187-189; her two special feats, how to leap the Bridge of the Leaps and to use the Gae Bolg, 188
SKENA. Wife of the poet Amergin; her untimely death, 133
SLAYNEY, THE RIVER. Visited by mac Cecht, 175
SLIEVB BLOOM. Murna takes refuge in forests of, and there Demna (Finn) is born, 255
SLIEVE FUAD (sleeve fooad) (afterwards Slievegallion).
Invisible dwelling of Lir on, 125; Cuchulain finds his foe on, 232; Finn slays goblin at, 258
SLIEVEGALLION. A fairy mountain; the Chase of, 278-280.
See Slieve Fuad
SLIEVENAMON (sleeve-na-mon). The Brugh of, Finn and Keelta hunt on, 284-286
SOHRAB AND RUSTUM. Reference to, 192
SPAIN. Celts conquer from the Carthaginians, 21; Carthaginian trade with, broken down by Greeks, 22; place-names of Celtic element in, 27; dolmens found round the Mediterranean coast of, 53; equivalent, Land of the Dead, 102
SQUIRE, MR. Author of Mythol. of Brit. Islands, 348, 353, 411
SRENG. Amba.s.sador sent to People of Dana by Firbolgs, 106
STAG OF REDYNVRE (red-invry), THE, 392
STARN. Son of Sera, brother of Partholan, 97
STOKES, DR. WHITLEY. Reference to, 166, 167; reference to his translation of the Voyage of Maeldun in Revue Celtique, 309
STONE, CORONATION. At Westminster Abbey, identical with Stone of Scone, 105
STONE OF ABUNDANCE. Equivalent, Cauldron of Abundance.
The Grail in Wolframs poem as a, 409; similar stone appears in the Welsh Peredur, 409; correspondences, the Celtic Cauldron of the Dagda, 410; in the Welsh legend Bran obtained the Cauldron, 410; in a poem by Taliesin the Cauldron forms part of the spoils of Hades, 410
STONE OF DESTINY. Otherwise _Lia Fail_.
One of the treasures of the Danaans, 105
STONE OF SCONE. Fabulous origin of, and present depository, 105
STONE-WORs.h.i.+P. Supposed reason of, 65, 66; denounced by Synod of Arles, 66; denounced by Charlemagne 66; black stone of Pergamos and Second Punic War, 66; the Grail a relic of ancient, 409
STONEHENGE. Dressed stones used in megalithic monument at, 54; Professor Rhys suggestion that Myrddin was wors.h.i.+pped at, 354; Geoffrey of Monmouth and, 354
STRABO. Characteristics of Celts, told by, 39, 46
STRAITS OF MOYLE (between Ireland and Scotland).
Aoifes cruelty to her step-children on the, 140
STRAND OF THE FOOTPRINTS. How name derived, 191
SUALTAM (sooal-tam). Father of Cuchulain (see Lugh), 206; his attempts to arouse Ulster, 221; his death, 222
SWEDEN. The s.h.i.+p symbol on rock-sculptures of, 72, 73
SWITZERLAND. Place-names of, Celtic element in, 27; lake-dwellings in, 56
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