Note 14 — BOOK I.
Reading edition
—Page 216, stanza cvii.
Welcome Bal-Huan back to yon sweet sky.
Bal-Huan, the sun. Those heaps of stone found throughout Britain (Crugiau or Carneu), were sacred to the sun in the Druid worship, and served as beacons in his honour on May eve. May was his consecrated month. The rocking-stones which mark these sanctuaries were called amber-stones.