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NEMGLAN. Commands Conary go to Tara, 168; he declares Conarys _geise_, 168

NENNIUS. British historian in whose Historia Britonum (A.D. 800) is found first mention of Arthur, 336

NESSA. Daughter of Echid Yellow-heel, wife of Fachtna, mother of Conor, 180; loved by Fergus, 180

NETHERLANDS. Place-names of, Celtic element in, 27

NEW GRANGE. Tumulus at, regarded as dwelling-place of Fairy Folk, 69, 70; symbolic carvings at, 70, 71; the s.h.i.+p symbol at, 71-73; Angus Ogs palace at, 121; Angus fairy palace at Brugh na Boyna identical with, 143

NIAM (neeam).

1. Wife of Conall of the Victories; tends Cuchulain, 229; Bave puts a spell of straying on her, 230 2. Of the Golden Hair; daughter of the King of the Land of Youth, 270; Oisin departs with, 271, 272; permits Oisin to visit the Land of Erin, 273

NISSYEN. Son of Eurosswyd and Penardun, 366

NODENS. See Nudd

NUADA OF THE SILVER HAND (nooada). King of the Danaans, 107-108; his encounter with Balor, champion of the Fomorians, 117; belongs to Finns ancestry, 255; identical with solar deity in Cymric mythology, viz., Nudd or Lludd, 346, 347

NUDD, or LLUDD. Roman equivalent, Nodens.

A solar deity in Cymric mythology, 346, 347; identical with Danaan deity, Nuada of the Silver Hand, 347; under name Lludd, said to have had a temple on the site of St. Pauls, 347; entrance to Lludds temple called _Parth Lludd_ (British), which Saxons translated _Ludes Geat_our present Ludgate, 347; story of Llevelys and, 385, 386; Edeyrn, son of, jousts with Geraint for Enid, 399, 400

NUTS OF KNOWLEDGE. Drop from hazel-boughs into pool where Salmon of Knowledge lived, 256

NUTT, MR. ALFRED. Reference to, in connexion with the Hill of Ain, 128, 129; reference to, in connexion with Oisin-and-Patrick dialogues, 288, 289; reference to object of the tale of Taliesin in his edition of the Mabinogion, 412

NYNNIAW. Peibaw and, brothers, two Kings of Britain, their quarrel over the stars, 355, 356

O

ODONOVAN. A great Irish antiquary; folk-tale discovered by, 109-119

ODYNA, CANTRED OF. Dermots patrimony, 300

OGRADY.

1. STANDISH.

References to his Critical History of Ireland on the founding of Emain Macha, 119, 120, 151, 152; his Masque of Finn referred to, 280, 281 2. STANDISH HAYES.

Reference to his Silva Gadelica, 250, 276, 281

OCEAN-SWEEPER. Mananans magical boat, 125

ODYSSEY, THE. Mr H.B. Cotterills hexameter version, quotation from, 79, 80

OGMA. Warrior of Nuada of the Silver Hand, 112, 118

OISIN (usheen). Otherwise Little Fawn.

Son of Finn, greatest poet of the Gael, 261; father of Oscar, 261; buries Aideen, 261; birth of, from Saba, 266-270; loved by Niam of the Golden Hair, 270-272; returns from Land of Youth, 273; Keelta and, resolve to part, 282; a.s.sists Keelta bury Oscar, 307

OLD CELTIC ROMANCES. Reference to Dr. P.W. Joyces, 303, 309, 312