Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Volume 2 |
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afanc Amanw ancestors ancient Anglesey Annwn Arfon Arthur Aryan Bannog boar Book Brynach Brythonic Bwlch called Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire cave Celtic Celts Coff Cúchulainn Danann Dinas Dinas Emrys district divinity Dôn doubtless druid Dun Cow dwarf Dwyfan Dyfed English Eochaid fairies father folklore Four Masters genitive given Goidelic Grugyn Gwent Gwydion heard horse horse's ears ILyn instance Ireland island Isle killed king known Kulhwch Labraid lake land language Latin Loch Lorc Lough Lydaw Mabinogi Mabinogion magic meaning Meirchion mentioned neighbourhood Oeth origin Owen Lawgoch Oxford Mabinogion perhaps Picts place-names probably Prydain Pryderi question race regarded rendered represented Revue Celtique Rhita RHYS river seems Snowdon soul stone story suggested suppose swine Taliessin tion told traces Triad Tuatha Dé Tuatha Dé Danann Twrch Trwyth Wales warriors Welsh woman word Ystrad Yw
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Page 401 - Une des légendes les plus répandues en Bretagne est celle d'une prétendue ville d'Is, qui, à une époque inconnue, aurait été engloutie par la mer. On montre, à divers endroits de la côte, l'emplacement de cette cité fabuleuse, et les pécheurs vous en font d'étranges récits. Les jours de tempête, assurent-ils, on voit, dans
Page 574 - to kill him, by reason of his beauty. So she wrapped him in a leathern bag, and cast him into the sea to the mercy of God on the twenty-ninth day of April. And at that time the weir of
Page 607 - easy for thee," answered his father. "Arthur is thy cousin. Go, therefore, unto Arthur to cut thy hair, and ask this of him as a boon."' The physical theory of love for an unknown lady at the first mention of her name, and the allusion to the Celtic tonsure,
Page 630 - which at that time was in part thereof habitable, where one Howell ap Jevan ap Rys Gethin, in the beginning of Edward the Fourth his raigne, captaine of the countrey and an outlaw, had dwelt. Against this man David ap Jenkin rose, and contended with him for the sovreignety of the countrey ; and being
Page 450 - Malory we seem to watch Bedivere making, with Excalibur in his hands, his three reluctant journeys to the lake ere he yielded it to the arm emerging from the deep. We fancy we behold how ' euyn fast by the banke houed a lytyl barge wyth many fayr ladyes in hit,
Page 418 - A story I heard on the cliffs of the West, That oft, through the breakers dividing, A city is seen on the ocean's wild breast, In turreted majesty riding. But brief is the glimpse of that phantom so bright : Soon close the white waters to screen it.
Page 556 - But as it fell out on last Hallowe'en, When the Seely Court was ridin' by, The queen lighted down on a gowan bank, Nae far frae the tree where I wont to lye.
Page 505 - congestum lapidum sub lapide in quo erat vestigium canis sui, et vocatur Carn Cabal. Et veniunt homines et tollunt lapidem in manibus suis per spacium dici et noctis, et in crastino die
Page 517 - not of this building," but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh.
Page 517 - hut on the site of Halicarnassus or Ephesus ; he builds, but what he builds is full of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely—stones " not of this building," but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the