² Ffraid Santes, St Bride, Brigit. Fffraid rhymes approx. with bride and Santes approx. with aunt. + ess. Cf. the association of Brigit with fire-rites; and cf. St Bride’s Bay, Pembs, an area of water covered by the ice-sheets.

³ The glaciation reached to about 51 deg. North Lat., thus extending just beyond the waters between South Wales and Ireland, which very many millennia later were to become associated with the marvel-voyages of the Celtic ascetics; such as the navigation-saint, Brendan, who in the legend rides the narrow channel on a marine creature and hails Finbar, mounted on David’s swimming horse, with the words ‘God is marvellous in his saints’.