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knights.” In folklore the word is reserved to kings having
small power.
RIDIRE RUADH, the “Red Riders,” seen by Conaire Mor as he
approached Da Derga’s Hostel. This was the last of a number
of geise broken just before the king met his final doom. The
colour of their gear marked these men as visitors from the
Otherworld.
RIGH, a king, dress or enshroud a corpse, as an interjection:
strange! OIr. ri; Cy. rhi; Gaul. rix; Lat. rex; Goth. reiks; Eng.
rich; Skr. raj, our rajah. Appears in combined forms, and is
feminized; thus Mhorrigan, mhor+rigan, “Great Queen.” This
is the Gothic reika, “prince” and reiki, “kingdom” are
similar to the Gaulish rix and rigon, It would seem difficult
to prove which of these came first, and thus conclude as
Padraic Colum has done that the Celtic people had “more
advanced social and political forms.” Nevertheless, this
was a widely held prejudice in Victorian-Edwardian Britain,
and other words “of unquestioned Celtic origin” include the
modern German reich, empire; amt, office; bann, an order;
frei, free; geisel, hostage; erbe, inheritance; werth, worth;
weih, sacred; magus, slave; hathu, battle; helith, hero (said
to correspond with Celt); heer, army; sieg, victory; beute,
booty, and so on.
Where men, such as Hu Gardarn, became mortal-gods a
different relationship was seen to exist between them and
men. While the immortal gods were insensitive to flattery,
sometimes called propitiation or worship, the priest-godking
was open to all kinds of cajoling, threats, patronage
and promises. Fraser has noted that our ancestors,
"imagined that men may attain to godhood, not merely after
their death, but in their lifetime, through the temporary
possession of their whole nature by a great and powerful
spirit. No class of the community benefited so much as
kings by this belief in the possible incarnation of a god in
human form."
While this allowed the king a lot of leeway in bullying