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Legends of Ireland. No. II. The Vision of Cathair Mor, King of Leinster, and Afterwards Monarch of Ireland, Foreboding the Origin of Loch Garman (Wexford Haven)",
457:) the place of drowning is translated as the "well of Port Coelrenna", and the water is said to have burst forth as Garman was being drowned. Elsewhere the place is translated "fountain Caelrind".
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give the physical origins, and etymological source of several bodies of water â in these myth poems the sources of rivers and lakes is sometimes given as being from magical wells.
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described the well, which he encountered in a trance, as being full of the "waters of emotion and passion, in which all purified souls are entangled".
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Ford, Patrick K. (1974), "The Well of
Nechtan and "La Gloire Lumineuse"", in Larson, Gerald J.; Littleton, C. Scott; Puhvel, Jaan (eds.),
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290:â the poem derives the origin of another river (
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851:"The Metrical Dindshenchas Part 3"
732:. Park Street Press. p. 197.
194:under a darksome mist of wizardry.
179:Connla's well, loud was its sound,
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875:A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
525:, Sinann I & II, pp.286â297.
839:, no. 6, London: David Nut
819:, no. 4, London: David Nut
633:(1963), "Le puits de Nechtan",
617:Myth in Indo-European Antiquity
327:whose wife was Boand, I aver;
317:dia ngluased do chlĂ nĂł deis,
268:("secret well") located in the
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183:six streams, unequal in fame,
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384:) this well, as well as the
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306:diarbo ben BĂłand, bĂĄgaimm,
169:dochuiret tall fon tiprait:
162:sé srotha, nårb inann blad,
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590:, Boand I & II, pp.26-.
313:Nà fhail nodécced dia lår
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215:) speculated that the name
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123:"well with flow unfailing"
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310:assa maided cech mĂ-rĂșn.
205:, Sinann II, pp.292â293)
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