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446:) 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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840:"The Metrical Dindshenchas Part 3"
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183:under a darksome mist of wizardry.
168:Connla's well, loud was its sound,
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514:, Sinann I & II, pp.286â297.
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622:(1963), "Le puits de Nechtan",
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316:whose wife was Boand, I aver;
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112:"well with flow unfailing"
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