Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Bind 2Clarendon Press, 1901 - 718 sider |
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Side 419
... kind , which are to form her dowry : see p . 8 above , and as to music in fairy tales , see pp . 202 , 206 , 292 . Now that a number of our inundation stories have been passed in review in this and the previous chapter , some room may ...
... kind , which are to form her dowry : see p . 8 above , and as to music in fairy tales , see pp . 202 , 206 , 292 . Now that a number of our inundation stories have been passed in review in this and the previous chapter , some room may ...
Side 420
... kind of equal justice was , no doubt , to let the offending ancestors live on to see their descendants of the generation for whose time the vengeance had been fixed , and to let them be swept away with them in one and the same cataclysm ...
... kind of equal justice was , no doubt , to let the offending ancestors live on to see their descendants of the generation for whose time the vengeance had been fixed , and to let them be swept away with them in one and the same cataclysm ...
Side 421
... kind , extending always back some two centuries , must have employed a class of professional men1 . In any case the ninth generation , called in Welsh y nawfed âch , which is a term in use all over the Principality at the present day ...
... kind , extending always back some two centuries , must have employed a class of professional men1 . In any case the ninth generation , called in Welsh y nawfed âch , which is a term in use all over the Principality at the present day ...
Side 424
... kind of imagination : the shepherd who joined a fairy party on Frenni Fach was convinced , when his senses and his memory returned , that , ' although he thought he had been absent so many years , he had been only so many minutes ...
... kind of imagination : the shepherd who joined a fairy party on Frenni Fach was convinced , when his senses and his memory returned , that , ' although he thought he had been absent so many years , he had been only so many minutes ...
Side 428
... kind of story about a neglected well door . These remarks suggest the question whether it was not one of the notions which determined surface burials , that is , burials in which no cutting of the ground took place , the cists or ...
... kind of story about a neglected well door . These remarks suggest the question whether it was not one of the notions which determined surface burials , that is , burials in which no cutting of the ground took place , the cists or ...
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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