nder Francis I, 36
FRANCIS I. King of France;
annexes Brittany to France, 36;
and Francoise de Foix, the Countess of Chateaubriant, 207;
gives the chateau of Suscino to Francoise de Foix, 210
FRANCIS I. Duke of Brittany, 36
FRANKS. The people;
exercised a nominal suzerainty over Brittany, 23;
Morvan fights with, 216-221;
"Morvan will return to drive the Franks from the Breton land,"
224
FRANKS, KING OF THE. In Villemarque's _Barzaz-Breiz_;
and Morvan's fight with the Moor, 218-220;
Morvan fights with, 220-221;
the character drawn in the style of the _chansons de gestes_,
224
FREDEGONDA. Queen of Neustria;
mentioned, 31
FREMIET, EMMANUEL. A French sculptor;
mentioned, 206
FRENE. A maiden;
in the Lay of the Ash-tree, 318-320
FULBERT. A canon of Notre-Dame, Paris, uncle of Heloise, 249;
mutilated Abelard, 250
FUNERAL CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES. In Brittany, 382-384, 386-388
G
GAIDOZ, H. Cited, 212 _n._
GANHARDIN. Brother of Ysonde of the White Hand;
in the story of Tristrem and Ysonde, 271-272, 273
GARB OF OLD GAUL, THE. A song;
mentioned, 237
GARGANTUA. A mythical giant;
the erection of the megalithic monuments ascribed to, 49
GARLON, THE CLERK OF. In a legend of the Marquis of Guerande,
199-202
GAVR'INIS ('Goat Island'). An island in the Gulf of Morbihan;
the tumulus at, 48;
nains' inscriptions on the megaliths of, 98
GAWAINE, SIR. One of King Arthur's knights;
mentioned, 357
GEBER. An Arabian alchemist;
mentioned, 175
GEOFFREY I. Duke of Brittany, 27;
in the legend of the Falcon, 196
GEOFFREY II (PLANTAGENET). Duke of Brittany, 30
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. An English chronicler;
the presentation of Vivien in his work, 69;
and the presentation of Merlin, 70;
acknowledged a Breton source for his work, 255
GILDAS. A British chronicler;
fellow-pupil with Taliesin at the school of Cattwg, 21;
St Keenan associated with, 343;
St Bieuzy a friend and disciple of, 345;
the bell of, in the chapel at La Roche-sur-Blavet, 345;
St Bieuzy dies in the presence of, 346;
St Pol of Leon a fellow-student of, 364
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS. A Welsh chronicler;
and the legend of the submerged city, 187
GIRDLE. Superstition of the, 302
GLAIN NEIDR. The sea-snake's egg or adder's stone, used i
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