Note 31 — Chapter VII · Triumphs of the Water-world
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On the great place given to islands in Celtic legend and myth it is needless here to expatiate: witness Brittia, to which Procopius describes the souls of the departed being shipped from the shores of the Continent, the Isle of Avallon in the Romances, that of Gwales in the Mabinogion, Ynys Enỻi or Bardsey, in which Merlin and his retinue enter the Glass House31, and the island of which we read in the pages of Plutarch, that it contains Cronus held in the bonds of perennial sleep32.