ontagnes d'Arree, _which see_

ARGOED. A place in Wales;
battle of, 22

ARMAGH. A city in Ireland;
Budoc made Bishop of, 356

ARMENIA. The country;
were-wolf superstition in, 291

ARMOR ('On the Sea'). The ancient Celtic name for Brittany, 13

ARMORICA. The Latin name for the country of Brittany, 13, 15;
Julius Caesar in, 16;
two British kingdoms in, 19;
the first monastery in, founded by Gwennole, 185;
King Arthur hunts wild beasts in, 278;
St Samson bidden to go to, 349

ARTHUR, KING. British chieftain, of legendary fame;
his finding of Excalibur, 256-257;
his encounter with the giant of Mont-Saint-Michel, 275-277;
his existence doubted by Bretons in the twelfth century, 278;
his fight with the dragon at the Lieue de Greve, 278-281;
carried to the Isle of Avalon after his last battle, 282;
Gugemar at the Court of, 292;
his contest with Modred, 344;
his sister Margawse the wife of King Lot of Lothian, 357;
mentioned, 64, 66, 173, 212, 224

ARTHUR. Duke of Brittany, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet;
murdered by King John of England, 30

ARTHURIAN ROMANCE. Resemblances in Villemarque's _Barzaz-Breiz_ to,
224;
the controversy as to the original birthplace of, 228,
254-255;
indigenous to British soil, 255

ARZ. _See_ Ile d'Arz

ASH-TREE, THE LAY OF THE. One of the _Lais_ of Marie de France,
317-320

AUCHENTORLIE. An estate in Scotland;
inscribed stones at, 46

AUCHINLECK MS. A manuscript containing a version of the story of
Tristrem and Ysonde, 272

AUDIERNE, BAY OF. A bay on the Breton coast;
national costume in the district of, 376

AULNOY, COMTESSE D'. Noted seventeenth-century French authoress;
mentioned, 144

AURAY. A town in Brittany;
battle at, 35;
centre from which to visit the megaliths of Carnac, 42

AVALON, ISLE OF. A fabled island to which King Arthur was carried
after his last battle, 282

AVENUE OF SPHINXES. At Karnak, Egypt, 43

AZENOR. Mother of St Budoc of Dol, 354-356

AZENOR THE PALE. A maiden;
the legend of, 360-364

B

BACCHUS. The Greek god of wine;
mentioned, 189

BALON. Monastery of;
St Tivisiau and, 338-339

BAN. King of Benwik;
father of Sir Lancelot, 257

BANGOR TEIVI. A village in Wales;
Taliesin said to have died at, 22

BARANTON, THE FOUNTAIN OF