AVriting  known  to  pagan  Irish,  169
to  173.
AVurzburg  Glosses,  200.
ArKAR  and  its  subdivisions,  478,  479.
Yeast  or  leaven,  362.
A^ellow  Book  of  Lecan,  208,  212.
Yellow  colour,  383,  488.
hair,  376.
plague, 153, 178,  271,  530.
Yew  rod  for  divination,  98.
Yew  tree  and  wood,   100,  102,   363,

,444,  445-
Arork,  176.
Zeuss,  200,  215.
Zinc,  435, 437.
Zurich,  lake,  36.
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