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Side 401
... only at low water between Celynnog Fawr and Dinas Dintte , on the coast of
Arfon . But , to put it briefly , it is an ancient belief in the Principality that its lakes
generally have swallowed up habitations of men , as in the case of Lyn Syfađon (
p .
... only at low water between Celynnog Fawr and Dinas Dintte , on the coast of
Arfon . But , to put it briefly , it is an ancient belief in the Principality that its lakes
generally have swallowed up habitations of men , as in the case of Lyn Syfađon (
p .
Side 424
This may well have been the belief as regards any one who had at his command
the dreaded potency of magic . Take for instance the Irish story of a king of Erin
called Eochaid Airem , who , with the aid of his magician or druid Dalán , defied ...
This may well have been the belief as regards any one who had at his command
the dreaded potency of magic . Take for instance the Irish story of a king of Erin
called Eochaid Airem , who , with the aid of his magician or druid Dalán , defied ...
Side 428
With this qualification the belief may be said to have lingered lately in Wales , for
instance , in connexion with Lyn Barfog , near Aberdovey . It is believed to be
very perilous , ' Mr . Pughe says , p . 142 above , ' to let the waters out of the lake '
...
With this qualification the belief may be said to have lingered lately in Wales , for
instance , in connexion with Lyn Barfog , near Aberdovey . It is believed to be
very perilous , ' Mr . Pughe says , p . 142 above , ' to let the waters out of the lake '
...
Side 429
Now the local belief is that the reason why the afanc had to be dragged out of the
river was that he caused floods in the river and made it impossible for people to
cross on their way to market at Lanrwst . Some such a local legend has been ...
Now the local belief is that the reason why the afanc had to be dragged out of the
river was that he caused floods in the river and made it impossible for people to
cross on their way to market at Lanrwst . Some such a local legend has been ...
Side 454
One might perhaps treat both as survivals of a belief in a sort of personification of
, or divinity identified with , a family or tribe , but for the fact that such language is
emptied of most of its meaning by the abstractions which it would connect with a ...
One might perhaps treat both as survivals of a belief in a sort of personification of
, or divinity identified with , a family or tribe , but for the fact that such language is
emptied of most of its meaning by the abstractions which it would connect with a ...
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Side 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
Side 600 - 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
Side 633 - 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,
Side 656 - 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
Side 464 - 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,
Side 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.
Side 578 - 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.
Side 526 - 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
Side 539 - 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.
Side 539 - 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