Chapter XIII: Costumes and Customs of Brittany (3)

TEURSTS. A race of evil spirits, 100

TEUS, or BUGELNOZ. A beneficent spirit of the district of Vannes,
100

THENAW. Mother of St Kentigern, 357

THIERRY, J. N. A. A French historian;
quoted, 17

THOMAS THE RHYMER, or THOMAS OF ERCILDOUNE. Thirteenth-century
Scottish poet;
his version of the story of Tristrem and Ysonde, 258 _et seq._;
visited Fairyland, 326;
mentioned, 64, 255, 327

THOUARS, CATHERINE DE. Wife of Gilles de Retz, 174

THOUARS, GUY DE. A French knight;
married to Constance of Brittany, 30

TIBER. The river;
mentioned, 358

TINA. A maiden;
in the story of the Baron of Jauioz, 145-147

TITANIA. Queen of the fairies;
mentioned, 74

TONQUÉDEC. A Breton château, 204

TOPOGRAPHY OF IRELAND. A work by Giraldus Cambrensis;
cited, 187

TORRENT OF PORTUGAL, SIR. A fifteenth-century English metrical
romance;
mentioned, 358

TOULBOUDOU. A seigneury near Guémené, 334

TOULBOUDOU, John, Lord of;
builds the chapel of St Barbe at Le Faouet, 334-335

TOUR D'ELVEN. A keep of the château of Largoet, 206

TOURLAVILLE. A Breton château, 208-209

TOWER OF LONDON, THE. Charles of Blois confined in, 31;
the name of, occurs frequently in Celtic and Breton romance, 99

TRAPRAIN LAW. A mountain in East Lothian, formerly called
Dunpender;
Thenaw cast from, 357

TREASURE, J. P. Cited, 16 _n._

TREDRIG. A village in Brittany;
St Yves the incumbent of, 351

TREES. Tales of spirits enclosed in, 52

TRÉGASTEL. A town on the Breton coast;
an island near believed by the Bretons to be the fabled Isle of
Avalon, 282

TRÉGUENNEC. A village in Brittany;
St Vougas associated with, 360

TRÉGUIER.
I. A former county of Brittany, 27, 350
II. A town in Brittany;
St Yves buried at, 353;
a burial custom of, 383;
mentioned, 167, 168, 237, 350

TRÉGUNC. A town in Brittany;
dolmen at 42

TREMALOUEN. A hamlet in Brittany;
ruins at, haunted by courils, 99

TREMTRIS. Inverted form of Tristrem's name given him by Rohand to
secure his safety, 259;
Tristrem assumes the name in Ireland, 264, 266

TRÉPASSÉS, BAY OF. A bay on the Breton coast, 185

TRÈVES. A village in Brittany;
had a reputation as the abode of sorcerers, 242

TRIDWAN. _See_ St Triduana

TRIEUX. A river in Brittany, 203, 204

TRIPHYNA (ST TRIPHYNE). A maiden, married to Comorre, 180-184

TRISTREM, SIR ('Child of Sorrow'). One of the Knights of the Round
Table, son of Blancheflour;
the story of, and Ysonde, 257-275;
mentioned, 301

TRISTREM, SIR. An ancient metrical romance;
incidents in, paralleled in the story of Bran, 227-228;
date of composition of, 228;
had a Breton source, 255;
Sir Walter Scott one of the first to bring Thomas the Rhymer's
version of, to public notice, 258;
Thomas the Rhymer's version of, recounted, 258-272;
Scott's continuation of the Auchinleck MS., 272-274;
the story of Tristrem and Ysonde claimed as a sun-myth, 274-275

TROGOFF. The château of;
in the legend of the Ward of Du Guesclin, 33-35

TROLLOPE, T. ADOLPHUS. Quoted, 179-180

TROMÉNIE-DE-SAINT-RENAN. A town in Brittany;
the Pardon of the Mountain held at, 378, 379

TROYES. A city in France;
Abélard's abbey of Nogent near, 249

TUGDUAL SALAÜN. A peasant of Plouber, composer of a ballad on the
Marquis of Guérande, 199, 202

TY C'HARRIQUET ('The House of the Gorics')
I. A name given to a megalithic structure near Penmarch, 49
II. A name applied to Carnac, 98

TY EN CORYGANNT. A name given to a megalithic structure in Morbihan,
49

U

UNBROKEN VOW, THE. A story of Broceliande, 60-63

UNITED STATES, THE. The Bretons aid, in the War of Independence,
238

URIEN. A Welsh chieftain;
Taliesin the bard of, 21, 22

V

VAL-ÈS-DUNES. A place in Brittany;
Alain, Count of Brittany, defeated in battle at, 28

VALLEY OF BLOOD. A place in hell;
in the story of the Baron of Jauioz, 146

VANNES.
I. A former county of Brittany;
mentioned, 23, 180
II. The city;
the dialect of, 16 _and n._;
the ancient city of the Veneti, 17;
the Teus or Bugelnoz of, 100;
in the story of Comorre the Cursed, 183;
the château of Suscino near, 209;
the abbey of St Gildas near, 248;
St Convoyon educated at, 335;
St Patern the patron saint of, 347;
St Patern Bishop of, 348;
the legend of the founding of the church of St Patern at,
348;
St Pol of Léon in, 364

VENETI. A Gallic tribe which inhabited Brittany, 16, 17

'VENUS, THE.' An image at Quinipily, 381

VILAINE. A river in Brittany, 335

VILLARS, ABBÉ DE. A French priest and writer;
cited, 64

VILLECHERET. A village in Brittany;
the head-dress of the women of, 375

VILLEMARQUÉ. _See_ Hersart de la Villemarqué

VINE, THE. Said to have been introduced into Brittany by Gradlon,
189

VIRGIN MARY, THE. In a Breton legend, 380

VITRÉ. A Breton château, 208

VIVIEN. An enchantress, in Arthurian legend;
meets Merlin in Broceliande, and afterward enchants him there,
65-69;
as presented in Arthurian legend and in other romances, 69;
may be classed as a water-spirit, 69;
the probable purpose of the story of Merlin and, in Arthurian
legend, 70;
of Breton origin, and does not appear in British myth, 256;
gives Arthur the sword Excalibur, 256-257;
Sir Lancelot stolen and brought up by, 257

W

WACE. A twelfth-century Anglo-Norman poet;
quoted, 54;
and the fountain of Baranton, 71

WAGNER, RICHARD. The composer;
mentioned, 258

WALES. Legend of the submerged city in, 187, 188;
the harp anciently the national instrument of, 229;
Bretons send an expedition to, to help Glendower, 234;
claimed as the birthplace of Arthurian romance, 254;
helped the development of Arthurian romance, 255;
Tristrem sojourns in, and wins fame there, 270;
mentioned, 59, 343

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, AMERICAN. Bretons take part in, against
England, 238

WAR OF THE TWO JOANS, THE. A war waged for the succession to the
Dukedom of Brittany, 31-32, 35-36

WARD OF DU GUESCLIN, THE. A Du Guesclin legend, 33-35

WASHING WOMAN, THE. An evil spirit of the Scottish Highlands, 100

WEDDING CUSTOMS. In Brittany, 385-386
_See also_ Marriage

WELLS, HOLY. In Brittany, 381-382

WELSH. The language;
the Breton tongue akin to, 15

WERE-WOLF. A man transformed into a wolf;
the prevalence, origin, and forms of the superstition, 289-292;
a were-wolf story, 284-289

WESTMINSTER. The city;
in the story of Tristrem and Ysonde, Ysonde carried to, for trial,
270

WEXFORD. A county of Ireland;
emigration from, to Brittany, 22

WHEEL OF FORTUNE, THE. A name wrongly given to part of the apparatus
of the sacring bell, 380

WHITE CHURCH. A church in Tréguier;
in the story of the Foster-brother, 170, 171

WILLIAM II. Duke of Normandy (William the Conqueror);
Conan II of Brittany and, 27, 28-29;
Bretons accompany, on his expedition against England, 232,
233

WILLIAM, COUNT. The name of the nobleman to whom Marie of France
dedicated her Fables, identified with Longsword, Earl of
Salisbury, 283-284

WINDS, THE. Play a large part in Breton folk-lore, 162;
a wind-tale, 163-167

WINE. St Germain exchanges for wax from the monks of Dol, 19;
a wine festival in honour of King Gradlon, 189

WOMEN. In early communities, magical power often the possession of,
246;
generally the conservators of surviving Druidic tradition, 247;
St Goezenou's antipathy to, 369;
costume of the women of Brittany--_see_ Costume _and_ Head-dress

WOOD OF CHESTNUTS. Mentioned in a story of Morvan, 217

Y

YEUN, THE. A morass of evil repute, 102-103;
a story of, 103-105

YORK. The city, in England;
St Samson ordained at, 349

YOUDIC, THE. A part of the Yeun peat-bog, 103;
a story of, 103-105

YOUGHAL. A town in Ireland;
Azénor and the infant Budoc washed ashore at, 355;
Budoc becomes abbot of the monastery at, 356

YOUGHAL, ABBOT OF. In the legend of St Budoc, 355, 356

YOUTH WHO DID NOT KNOW. The story of, 106-115

YS, or IS. A submerged city of legend;
the legend of, 184-188;
such a legend common to several Celtic races, 187;
Giraldus Cambrensis and the legend of, 187-188

YSEULT. _See_ Ysonde

YSONDE, or YSEULT. Daughter of the King of Ireland;
some incidents in her story paralleled in the ballad of Bran,
228;
the story of Tristrem and, 257-274;
the story of Tristrem and, claimed as a sun-myth, 274-275

YSONDE OF THE WHITE HAND. Daughter of Hoel I, Duke of Brittany;
in the story of Tristrem and Ysonde, 271, 273

YVES. Husband of Azénor the Pale, 361-363

YVON. A youth;
in the story of the Castle of the Sun, 131-137

YVONNE. A maiden;
in the story of the Castle of the Sun, 131-137

ZIMMER, H. Cited, 278

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Transcriber Notes

Typographical inconsistencies have been changed and are listed below.

Hyphenation has been standardized.

Otherwise, archaic spelling and the author's punctuation style have been preserved.

Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_.

The macrons over the a's in Mah[=a]bh[=a]rata and R[=a]m[=a]yana are indicated by [=a].

Transcriber Changes

The following changes were made to the original text:

Page 113: Added quote ("What do you desire? You have only to speak
and it shall be =brought."=)

Page 121: Was 'litle' (You can restore me permanently to my human
shape if you choose to show only a =little= perseverance
and courage.)

Page 206: Added apostrophe (in Octave =Feuillet's= _Roman d'un jeune
Homme pauvre_)

Page 227: Added quote (for when you die you will at least end your
days in =Brittany."=)

Page 267: Was 'attendent' (her passion for Tristrem moved her to
induce her =attendant= Brengwain to take her place)

Page 357: Was 'Eufeurien' (Thenaw met Ewen, the son of =Eufuerien=,
King of Cumbria, and fell deeply in love with him)

Footnote 38: Was 'Legende' (_La =Légende= de la Mort_)

Index: Was 'bulit' (the chapel of St Barbe =built= on, 335)

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