Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Bind 2Clarendon Press, 1901 - 718 sider |
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Side 406
... fact of the ways and means of sympathetic magic . For specimens in point the reader may be conveniently referred to page 360 , where he may compare the words quoted from Mr. Hartland , especially as to the use there mentioned of stones ...
... fact of the ways and means of sympathetic magic . For specimens in point the reader may be conveniently referred to page 360 , where he may compare the words quoted from Mr. Hartland , especially as to the use there mentioned of stones ...
Side 411
... fact , she had promised him happiness Till within his hall the flag - reeds tall And the long green rushes grow . The ogress continued in words which made the clerk see how completely he had been caught in his own net : Then take thy ...
... fact , she had promised him happiness Till within his hall the flag - reeds tall And the long green rushes grow . The ogress continued in words which made the clerk see how completely he had been caught in his own net : Then take thy ...
Side 415
... fact such as has been indicated to me by Mr. Owen M. Edwards , of Lincoln College , in regard to Bala Lake . When the surface of that water , he says , is covered with broken ice , and a south - westerly wind is blowing , the mass of ...
... fact such as has been indicated to me by Mr. Owen M. Edwards , of Lincoln College , in regard to Bala Lake . When the surface of that water , he says , is covered with broken ice , and a south - westerly wind is blowing , the mass of ...
Side 416
... facts from the rector , Mr. Prosser Powell , and from Mrs. Powell in particular , as to the folklore of the parish , which is still in several respects very Welsh . Mrs. Powell , however , did not confine herself to Dorstone or the Dore ...
... facts from the rector , Mr. Prosser Powell , and from Mrs. Powell in particular , as to the folklore of the parish , which is still in several respects very Welsh . Mrs. Powell , however , did not confine herself to Dorstone or the Dore ...
Side 420
... fact , who is not charged with having done anything to deserve it . The ethics of that legend are , it is clear , not easy to discover , and in our inundation stories one may trace stages of development from a similarly low level . The ...
... fact , who is not charged with having done anything to deserve it . The ethics of that legend are , it is clear , not easy to discover , and in our inundation stories one may trace stages of development from a similarly low level . The ...
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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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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 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
Side 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,
Side 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
Side 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,
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 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.
Side 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
Side 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.
Side 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