Chapter 37

Salmon of knowledge, the,448

Saltair of Tara,72,264,555

Saltair of Cashel,265-6

Saltair na rann,414ff.

Samhan's Day,247

"Sancti Venite,"150

Satire on a prince, mode of,242; power of, to raise blisters,328; the first satire ever made in Ireland,285,409; Dalian threatens Mongan with a satire,411; the satires of Angus O'Daly,476ff.

Saxon invasion of Britain,23; Saxon chronicle,23,42; Saxons flock to Armagh,134; Saxon genealogies given by Mac Firbis,563

Saxo Grammaticus,78

Scansion of Irish classical metres,532

Scathach, a female trainer of warriors,298

Schaffhausen, Library of,184

Schools, curriculum in early Irish,215ff.; Anglo-Saxons educated gratis in the Irish,220; length of term in,529; closed by James I.,554; old Irish texts used in,155

Schoell on Adamnan's Life of Columcille,184

Scots, Irish so called by Claudian,23;see also"Highlands"

Scottish race,i.e., the Irish,164,187; the Irish suffer from the ambiguity of the word "Scottish,"451

Scotia, Ireland so called till the 15th century,34; used for Hibernia,164; confounded with Great Britain,106; Scotland called Lesser Scotia,34

Scots, absurd derivation of the name,45

Scotus Erigena,218,248,448

Scota, daughter of Pharaoh,45

Scott, Sir Walter,400

Script of Adamnan's life of Columcille compared with that of the Book of Armagh,184

Sculpture, Irish,457

Scymnus of Chio, verses on the Celts,6,42

Sea, "the seven daughters of the,"242

Seanchus, or Senchus, Mór, character of,88,283,584ff.;588ff

Seachnall, St.,147-8

Seasons, good or bad, caused by good or bad rulers,28,388

Sedulius of Lüttich,448

Sedulius, abbot of Kildare217-8

Sedulius, author of Carmen Paschale,107

Seefinn,57

Segienus, abbot of Iona,202

Senanus, or Senan, of Iniscathy [Inis Cathaigh],196,213,410

Sencha, the Nestor of the Red Branch,336,589

Senchan, Torpeist, poet,263,411

Servile tribes, the,27,29

Seventh century, the golden age of Irish saga,387

Shield, Dallan's poem on King Aedh's,410

Shannon, origin of the name,447; a Roscommon poem on,448

Siadal, or Sedulius,107

Sidh [shee] mounds, or fairy palaces,96,100

Sidhe [Shee] the,284; the Fomorians, so called,287; friends of Cuchulain,327

Sigerson, Dr., F.R.U.I.,106,133,147,216,409,505,596

Silken, Thomas,493

Silius Italicus describes the Celtic Boii,18

Síol [Sheeol] Carthaigh,61

Síol nDálaigh,64

Skene,76,371

Skriebentium, Irish monks at,449

Slane, Dagobert educated at,220

Sliabh Echtge, poem on,428

Sligo, history of,623

"Slender-with-slender," rule of,482

Slieve Luachra,47

Slieve Bladhma, or Bloom,49

Slieve Cualgni, whence called,49

Slieve Fuad, whence called,49

Snakes, none in Ireland,22,45

Snedgus and Mac Riaghla, voyage of,403

Snow, fall of, described,324

Socrates, his descent,78

Solinus,238

"Son of Ill Council," the,260

Spain, overrun by Celts,5; the Irish take refuge in,553

Spanish stories translated into Irish,572

Spenser,557; on the Irish bards,494ff.

Spiral, the, in Irish art,454

Sru,45

St. John's eve,90-91

St. Gall, monastery of,197,485

St. Paul, in Carinthia monastery of,210

Stag laments for hind,384

State, idea of the State absent from the Irish,252,585

State papers, the,474,525,567

Stapleton, Theobald, author,571,616

Steeds, Cuchulain's,345,350,351

Stems, the four great Irish genealogical,59; Teutonic, ditto,59

Stern, Ludwig Christian,536,540

Stilicho,35

Stone used in Irish buildings,459

Stories, list of, in the Book of Leinster,278; number still existing,279; epitomised in the older texts,296ff.; translated from foreign languages,572;see"Saga"

Stokes, Professor G.,203,214,218,222

Stokes, Dr. Whitley, on Seachnall's Hymn,149; on St. Brigit,161; on the Sindbad story,199; on ogams,113; on the Féilire of Aonghus,265,413; on the meaning of Dagda,287; on"rithim,"486; on the Saltair na Rann,414; his Tripartite Life,43,154; Lives of the Saints,92; Dinnseanchus,93

Stokes, Miss Margaret, Six Months in the Apennines,451; on Irish art,455; on Irish Romanesque,460; on the arrest of Irish development,463

Stowe MSS., the,471

Strongbow,212

"Strong-armed Wrestler," the,597

Strabo on the stature of the Celts,18; calls Ireland Ierne,21

Strachan, studies on the Irish deponent,265,405

Strangers in Ireland,219,222

Stuarts, sentimental affection for the,594

Stuart, Charles Edward,596

Suetonius,149

"Sugar-loaf" mountain, the,49

Suibhne's madness, saga,403

Sullivan, Dr. W.K.,260,399,512

Sun-worship,455

Swift, Dean,ix, proposes to exterminate the Irish language,621

Swords, have speech and sensation,291; sword "of light,"391; make music,id.; juggled with,337,392

T

"Tabhal-lorg," or tablet-staff,117

Tacitus on the Irish,19,21,43

Tadhg Mac Daire, poet,28; see "Teig"

Taibhli Fileadh,116

Taillefer,337

Táin Bo Chuailgne,7,110,260; oldest copy of,263; the saga of,319ff.; Dr. Sullivan on its composition,399; nearly an epic,400

Tailltinn, fair of,48

Talti,48

Tamhlorg fileadh,116

Tara, Féis of,73,126; cursed by St. Ruadhan,226ff.; effect of this curse,234; a college at,245; Conall Cearnach spares,352; Cuan O'Lochain on,447; how built,458ff; the Teach Miodh-chuarta at,127,458

Teach Mior Miodh-chuarta,127,129,458

Teagasg Riógh,246ff.

Technique of the Irish poets,406

Teffia or Longford,206

Teig [or Tadg] Mac Daire, poet,515ff.,564; death of,517

Teig, son of Cian, saga of,402

Teig used to designate an Irishman,594

Teinm laeghdhaortenmlaida,84,241

Telltown, miscalled,48

Temples,55

Tennyson,510

Tethra,101

Teudor Mac Regin,40

Teutoni, the,10

Teutonic theogony,13; mythology,78

Theogony, Old Gaelic,50; few names in common in Indo-European, Ch. I n.25

Theodosius,35

Theft, spell for discovering241

Thierry,23

Thor, equated with Taranucus by Rhys,13

Three Sorrows of Story-telling,279,287

Thucydides, his descent,78

Thurneysen,97,153,241; on Irish metric,482ff.

Tibride Tirech, ancestor of the old Ulster princes,27

Tighearnmas, Fomorian culture king,78,87

Tighearnach, his date,23; on early Irish History,24; books used by him,43; educated at Clonmacnois,206; silent about the cursing of Tara,227; on Finn mac Cúmhail,380; his annals,580

Timagenes,94

Tirechan,134,136,149; account of his work,151ff.

Todd, Dr.,202; on the Wars of the Gael and Gaill,234; on O'Mahony's Keating,556

Topography of Ireland,56ff.

Torna Eigeas, poet,515

Tory Island,282

Towers,459;see"Round Towers"

Translations from modern languages into Irish,572

Trench, Hon. Power, Archbishop of Tuam,620

Trias Thaumaturga,153,574

Tribal system, supported by genealogy,71

Trinity College,i.e., Dublin University,xiii; its attitude towards Celtic studies,xiv,xv; its so-called Irish professorship,xiv,625; its neglect to bridge the gap between the different inhabitants of Ireland,308; indignation of the native Irish at being excluded from it,561; founded, says Lombard, "sumptibus indigenarum,"561; does not recover Flood's bequest,625

Trinity, Columcille's hymn to the,181

Tripartite life of St Patrick,107,147,149; described,153

Tritenheim, John of,107

Troithlidhe, meaning of,475

Tuatha De Danann,47,51,52; their druids, steeds, servants, etc.,524; the names of their chief people,52; believed by O'Donovan and O'Curry to have been real people,53; no Irish families descended from them,76,563; their gods die,80,287; their druids,82,83; history of,280ff.; confounded with thesidhe,284; meaning of the name;286; aid Cuchulain,334; Mac Firbis on them,563

Tuathal, or Toole,29; extorts the Boru tribute,30,393ff.

Tuan mac Cairill,95,381

Tugen, the, or poet's robe,240

Tuisco,59

Tuireann, children of,78,287

Turin glosses, the,267

Turlough mac Stairn, tale,260

Turpin's Chronicle in Irish,572

Turgesius,204-7

"Tutor of the saints of Ireland," the,194

"Twelve apostles of Ireland," the,196,229

Tyrconell's viceroyalty,593

U

Uacongbháil, Book of,264

Ua Corra, voyage of the sons of,403

Ugony the Great,25,408

Uillinn,48

Uisneach, hill of,90

Ui Briain, the,33,34,527

Ui Fiachrach, the,33

Ui Néill, the,35,171,204,206,232,233,452

Uladh, or Ulster,66; Book of genealogies of,59

Ulster Journal of Archæology,375

Ulster monks in Germany,449

Ulidians, or Ulstermen,66

Ultan, Bishop,151,163,164

University, anxiety of the Irish for a,550ff.; Dublin University,see"Trinity College"

Uraicept na n-Eigeas, or,na n-égsine,244,487

Ursgeul, the Irish, or saga,227,277

Ussher, Archbishop,554; his "Antiquities,"211; on Caimin's Psalter,214; attacks Bedell,619; anomalous position of,620

V

Valerius Maximus,94

Van der Meer on Adamnan's "Columcille,"85

Ventry Harbour, battle of,372,384

Verse, used in the Táin Bo Chuailgne,260; interspersed with prose,260,399; the various frameworks of verse amongst various nations,559; accentuated replaces syllabic,541ff.; quoted in the Annals, etc.,579,581

Vienna, Irish glosses in,267

Virgilius, or Fergil,224

Vision of Brigit on Ireland,158

Vision of Baithin on Columcille,173-4

Vision of St. Fursa,198

Vision of St. Patrick on Ireland,193; of Dryhthelm on purgatory,199; of St. Brendan on hell,200; of Adamnan,200

Victor, St. Patrick's angel,143

Vocabularius St. Galli,420

Voyage of Bran, age of the verses in,485

W

Walah, root of "Welsh" from Volcae,4

Wards, the,524

Ward, Father Hugh [Mac an Bháird],574

Wars of the Gael with the Gaill,434ff.; analysed,440ff.

Waterford, endeavours to impose English on the citizens,610

Welsh pedigree confirms Irish Annals,411

Welsh language,613

Westwood on Irish art,460,462

Wexford,615,618

Whiskey, Carolan's ode to,599

White, Stephen, S. J.,183,184,612

Wild, an English tourist,629

Wilfrid,221

Willibrord, St.,222

Winds, the colours of the,415,416

Winter night, Caoilte's poem on a,507

Windisch on St. Brigit,161-3; on the pagan element in Irish literature,251; on the archaism of the sagas,261; on Irish scansion,532; on the language of Irish copyists,269; on Irish metric,483

Woden equated with Welsh Gwydion,13; accredited ancestor of various races,78

Women, not shunned by the early saints,192; shunned by the later ones,193; tardily exempted from military service,234; King Cormac's opinion of them,249; Parliament of the,260; as trainers of warriors,296; enjoy their own dowries,32; their price is the Brehon Law,320; uncover their bosoms before Cuchulain,348

Wood used in Irish buildings,129,130

Woodward, Dr., Bishop of Cloyne,620

Wooing of Emer,296ff.

Workmanship of Irish gold, bronze, etc.,125ff.

Wren, legend of the,398

Writing materials of the early Irish,116; art of writing, when introduced into Ireland,105ff.; druids forbidden to write their verses,289

Wurzburg glosses,97,267

Z

Zeuss,147; on the Celtic invention of rhyme,480

Zimmer,40,97,106,111,112,152,217; on the pagan character of Irish literature,252; on the Táin Bo Chuailgne,263,269; on old Middle Irish MSS.,268; on the Irish scholars upon the continent,449,450-1; on Fiacc's Life of St. Patrick483; on the scansion of the classical Irish metres,532


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