is now no trace in the sagas or in
classical references to the Celtic belief in the future life. Nor is
there any reference to a day of judgment, for the passage in which
Loegaire speaks of the dead buried with their weapons till "the day of
Erdathe," though glossed "the day of judgment of the Lord," does not
refer to such a judgment.[1192] If an ethical blindness be attributed to
the Celts for their apparent lack of any theory of retribution, it
should be remembered that we must not judge a people's ethics wholly by
their views of future punishment. Scandinavians, Greeks, and Semites up
to a certain stage were as unethical as the Celts in this respect, and
the Christian hell, as conceived by many theologians, is far from
suggesting an ethical Deity.

FOOTNOTES:

[1154] Skene, i. 370.

[1155] Caesar, vi. 14, 19.

[1156] Diod. Sic. v, 28.

[1157] Val. Max. vi. 6. 10.

[1158] _Phars._ i. 455 f.

[1159] Amm. Marc. xv. 9; Strabo, iv. 4; Mela, iii. 2.

[1160] Miss Hull, 275.

[1161] Nutt-Meyer, i. 49; Miss Hull, 293.

[1162] Larminie, 155; Hyde, _Beside the Fire_, 21, 153; _CM_ xiii. 21;
Campbell, _WHT_, ii. 21; Le Braz{2}, i. p. xii.

[1163] Von Sacken, _Das Grabfeld von Hallstatt_; Greenwell, _British
Barrows_; _RC_ x. 234; _Antiquary_, xxxvii. 125; Blanchet, ii. 528 f.;
Anderson, _Scotland in Pagan Times_.

[1164] _L'Anthropologie_, vi. 586; Greenwell, _op. cit._ 119.

[1165] Nutt-Meyer, i. 52; O'Donovan, _Annals_, i. 145, 180; _RC_ xv. 28.
In one case the enemy disinter the body of the king of Connaught, and
rebury it face downwards, and then obtain a victory. This nearly
coincides with the dire results following the disinterment of Bran's
head (O'Donovan, i. 145; cf. p. 242, _supra_).

[1166] _LU_ 130_a_; _RC_ xxiv. 185; O'Curry, _MC_ i. p. cccxxx;
Campbell, _WHT_ iii. 62; Leahy, i. 105.

[1167] Vigfusson-Powell, _Corpus Poet. Boreale_, i. 167, 417-418, 420;
and see my _Childhood of Fiction_, 103 f.

[1168] Larminie, 31; Le Braz{2}, ii. 146, 159, 161, 184, 257 (the _role_
of the dead husband is usually taken by a _lutin_ or _follet_, Luzel,
_Veillees Bretons_, 79); _Rev. des Trad. Pop._ ii. 267; _Ann. de
Bretagne_, viii. 514.

[1169] Le Braz{2}, i. 313. Cf. also an incident in the _Voyage of
Maelduin_.

[1170] _RC_ x. 214f. Cf. Kennedy, 162; Le Braz{2}, i. 217, for variants.

[1171] Curtin, _Tales_, 156; see p. 170, _supra_.

[1172] Curtin, _Tales_, 156; Campbell, _Superstitions_, 241;
_Folk-