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[362] Don is sometimes held to be male, but she is distinctly called sister of Math (Loth, i. 134), and as the equivalent of Danu she must be female.
[363] Loth, ii. 209.
[364] See p. 60, _supra_, and Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 90_f_.
[365] Lady Guest, iii. 255; Skene, i. 297, 350.
[366] For this _Mabinogi_ see Loth, i. 117f.; Guest, iii. 189f.
[367] Skene, i. 286.
[368] Loth, ii. 229, 257; and for other references to Math, Skene, i.
281, 269, 299.
[369] Skene, i. 296, 281.
[370] Loth, ii. 297; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 276.
[371] Skene, i. 264.
[372] Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 270. Skene, i. 430, 537, gives a different meaning to _seon_.
[373] Skene, i. 264.
[374] Loth, ii. 296.
[375] Skene, i. 299, 531.
[376] See p. 224, _infra_.
[377] Guest, iii. 255; Morris, _Celtic Remains_, 231.
[378] _HL_ 283 _f_. See also Grimm, _Teut. Myth._ i. 131.
[379] Loth, i. 240.
[380] Stokes, _US_ 34.
[381] _Myvyrian Archaeol._ i. 168; Skene, i. 275, 278 f.; Loth, ii. 259.
[382] See my _Childhood of Fiction_, 127. Llew's vulnerability does not depend on the discovery of his separable soul, as is usual. The earliest form of this _Marchen_ is the Egyptian story of the Two Brothers, and that of Samson and Delilah is another old form of it.
[383] Skene, i. 314, ii. 342.
[384] _HL_ 408; _RC_ x. 490.
[385] _HL_ 237, 319, 398, 408.
[386] _HL_ 384.
[387] _HL_ 474, 424.
[388] Loth, ii. 231.
[389] Loth, i. 240.
[390] Skene, i, 286-287.
[391] Loth, ii. 263.
[392] Skene, ii. 159; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 157; Guest, iii. 255.
[393] Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 161, 566.
[394] Skene, i. 282, 288, 310, 543, ii. 145; Loth, i. 135; Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 387.
[395] Loth, i. 27 f.; Guest, iii. 7 f.
[396] Rhiannon is daughter of Heveidd Hen or "the Ancient," probably an old divinity.
[397] In the _Mabinogi_ and in Fionn tales a mysterious hand s.n.a.t.c.hes away newly-born children. Cf. _ZCP_ i. 153.
[398] Anwyl, _ZCP_ i. 288.
[399] Loth, ii. 247.
[400] Skene, i. 264.
[401] Ibid. i. 276.
[402] Ibid. i. 310.
[403] Loth, i. 166.
[404] _Hist. Brit._ ii. 11, iii. 1, 20, iv. 3.
[405] Cf. Anwyl, _ZCP_ i. 287.
[406] Skene, i. 431; Loth, ii. 278. Some phrases seem to connect Beli with the sea--the waves are his cattle, the brine his liquor.
[407] Loth, ii. 209, 249, 260, 283.
[408] Geoffrey, _Brit. Hist._ iv. 3. 4.
[409] Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 125 f.; Loth, i. 265; MacBain, _CM_ ix. 66.
[410] See Loth, i. 269; and Skene, i. 293.
