CHAPTER VI

THE CELTIC OTHERWORLD 332-57

General Ideas of the Otherworld; its Location; its Subjectivity; its Names; its Extent; Tethra one of its kings--The Silver Branch and the Golden Bough; and Initiations--The Otherworld the Heaven-World of all Religions--Voyage of Bran--Cormac in the Land of Promise-- Magic Wands--Cuchulainn's Sick-Bed--Ossian's Return from Fairyland--Lanval's going to Avalon--Voyage of Mael-Duin-- Voyage of Teigue--Adventures of Art--Cuchulainn's and Arthur's Otherworld Quests--Literary Evolution of idea of Happy Otherworld.