Note 63 — Chapter I · THE KING OF THE WOOD

This is inferred from entries in the ancient Celtic calendar of which numerous fragments, engraved on bronze, were found in 1897 at Coligny near Lyons. In this calendar the month Rivros seems to mean “the harvest month” and to correspond to August. Sir John Rhys believes that the harvest-god Rivos, who is only known from this calendar, answers to the better-known Celtic god Lug. See Sir John Rhys, in Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religion (Oxford, 1908), ii. 222 sqq.; and as to the Coligny calendar in general see further Sir John Rhys, “Celtae and Galli,” Proceedings of the British Academy, 1905–1906, pp. 71 sqq.; id. “Notes on the Coligny Calendar,” Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. iv.