Lives of the Cambro British Saints: Of the Fifth and Immediate Succeeding Centuries, from Ancient Welsh & Latin Mss. in the British Museum and Elsewhere, with English Translations and Explanatory Notes |
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Ac yna aforesaid angel aoruc Arglwyd Armorica atque autem begat Beino Beuno bishop blessed Cadoc Brecknockshire brenhin brethren called Ceredig Christ church chwi Cunedda Wledig Cybi daughter of Brychan Deus Dewi dicens disciples dixit Domini Dubricius dywedut ejus ejusdem enim erat erchis etiam father filius fountain fuit genuit Glamorgan gwedy Gwent Gwynlliw Gwynllwg holy hwnnw hynny ibique idaw igitur illa illi illius illo Illtyd illum ipse ipsius itaque king Landavensis locum Lord Maxen Meurig ap Tewdrig Monmouthshire nocte omnes omnibus Oudoceus quam quia quidam quod quoque regis respondit Saint Aidus Saint Cadoc Saint David Sancti Cadoci sanctus Aidus sibi suam sunt super suum Teilo terram thee thou wilt tibi Tunc usque venit vero Welsh wrth
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Page 455 - ... we may be found acceptable in thy sight; and receive that blessing which thy wellbeloved Son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee, saying, Come, ye blessed children of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world.
Page 319 - Lord, who desires not the death of the sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live, for I will no longer remember his sins, but all shall be forgiven him.
Page 357 - These sounds he hearing, immediately compelled them to go aboard a ship, and sail back to recover their book ; and, burning with anger, said, ' Go, not to return !' Then his disciples, by the command of their master, without delay quickly went aboard a boat, and by sailing got to the said island. Having obtained the aforesaid volume, they soon in their passage returned to the middle of the sea, and were seen at a distance by the man of God sitting on the top of a hill in Barry ; when the boat unexpectedly...
Page 445 - With these words, and with Christ as his companion, David gave up his life to God; and attended by the escort of angels, he sought the gates of heaven. His body, borne on the arms of holy brethren, and accompanied by a great...
Page vi - ... character, as being intimately connected with the origin and progress of modern European Literature; for it is among the legends and traditions of the Welsh that many of the materials are to be found, which supplied the nations of the Continent with their earliest subjects of composition, and produced thoae highly imaginative works that continue to exercise so powerful an influence to the present day.
Page vi - MORGANWG), for the purpose of forming a continuation of the Myvyrian Archaiology ; and subsequently proposed as materials for a new HISTORY OF WALES ; with English Translations and Dates, by his son, the late TALIESIN WILLIAMS (AB IOLO), royal 8vo.
Page 301 - Beino we catch a glimpse of the chasm that parted the two races at this period. Beino had settled with some monkish followers in a solitary retreat in the west of our Herefordshire. " And on a certain day, as Beino was travelling near the river Severn, where was a ford, lo ! he heard a voice on the other side of the river, inciting dogs to hunt a hare ; the voice being that of a Saxon who spoke as loud as he could ' Cirgia ' (charge), which in that language incited the dogs.
Page vi - Continent with their earliest subjects of composition, and produced those highly imaginative works that continue to exercise so powerful an influence to the present day. A great mass of Historical information, relating to the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, is contained in the unpublished Poetry of Wales ; from which an intimate acquaintance with the state of society during those periods may be obtained ; the Welsh Bards being the Chroniclers of the times in which they lived, and...
Page 355 - What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest : and thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back...
Page 603 - And Drichan in the latter part of his life became blind ; and whilst he lay watching, a certain boar came from the wood, and stood by the banks of the river Yscir ; and there was a stag behind him in the river, and also a fish under the belly of the stag, which then portended that Brychan should be happy in abundance of wealth. 1 Caerfarchell, neiir Solva, is supposed to take its name from her.