consistere cogant: et quod quisque eorum de quaque re audierit aut
cognoverit quaerant, et mercatores in oppidis vulgus circumsistat: quibus
ex regionibus veniant, quasque res ibi cognoverint pronunciare cogant."
Book iv.

[13] To wit, two hundred and fifty long and a hundred short ones.
D'Arbois de Jubainville, "Introduction a l'etude de la Litterature
Celtique," Paris, 1883, 8vo, pp. 322-333.

[14] See, with reference to this, the "Navigation of Mael-Duin," a
christianised narrative, probably composed in the tenth century, under
the form in which we now possess it, but "the theme of which is
fundamentally pagan." Here are the titles of some of the chapters: "The
isle of enormous ants.--The island of large birds.--The monstrous
horse.--The demon's race.--The house of the salmon.--The marvellous
fruits.--Wonderful feats of the beast of the island.--The
horse-fights.--The fire beasts and the golden apples.--The castle
guarded by the cat.--The frightful mill.--The island of black weepers."
Translation by Lot in "L'Epopee Celtique," of D'Arbois de Jubainville,
Paris, 1892, 8vo, pp. 449 ff. See also Joyce, "Old Celtic Romances,"
1879; on the excellence of the memory of Irish narrators, even at the
present day, see Joyce's Introduction.

[15] D'Arbois de Jubainville, "L'Epopee Celtique," pp. xxviii and
following. "Celtic marriage is a sale.... Physical paternity has not the
same importance as with us"; people are not averse to having children
from their passing guest. "The question as to whether one is physically
their father offers a certain sentimental interest; but for a practical
man this question presents only a secondary interest, or even none at
all." _Ibid._, pp. xxvii-xxix.

[16] The Murder of Cuchulainn, "L'Epopee Celtique en Irlande," p. 346.

[17] The same quality is found in the literature of Brittany; the major
part of its monuments (of a more recent epoch) consists of religious
dramas or mysteries. These dramas, mostly unpublished, are exceedingly
numerous.

[18] "L'Epopee Celtique," pp. 66 and following.

[19] "L'Epopee Celtique en Irlande," pp. 217 and following.

[20] From "Mabinog" apprentice-bard. They are prose narratives, of
divers origin, written in Welsh. They "appear to have been written at
the end of the twelfth century"; the MS. of them we possess is of the
fourteenth; several of the legends in it contain pagan elements, and
carry us back "to the most distant past of the history of the Cel