Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Bind 2Clarendon Press, 1901 - 718 sider |
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Side 402
... Perhaps it is best to begin with historical events , namely those implied in the encroachment of the sea and the sand on the coast of Glamorganshire , from the Mumbles , in Gower , to the mouth of the Ogmore , below Bridgend . It is ...
... Perhaps it is best to begin with historical events , namely those implied in the encroachment of the sea and the sand on the coast of Glamorganshire , from the Mumbles , in Gower , to the mouth of the Ogmore , below Bridgend . It is ...
Side 415
... Perhaps the most remarkable instance remains to be mentioned : I refer to Cantre'r Gwaelod , as the submerged country of Gwydno Garanhir is termed , see p . 382 above . To one portion of his fabled realm the nearest actual centres of ...
... Perhaps the most remarkable instance remains to be mentioned : I refer to Cantre'r Gwaelod , as the submerged country of Gwydno Garanhir is termed , see p . 382 above . To one portion of his fabled realm the nearest actual centres of ...
Side 424
... perhaps , is that the fairies were not always in a position to harm him who offended them . 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 ...
... perhaps , is that the fairies were not always in a position to harm him who offended them . 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 ...
Side 426
... perhaps , to explain that under the head of lakes I have included not only separate pieces of water , but also six inlets of the sea , such as Strang- ford Lough and the like . Still more to the point is it to mention that of the lakes ...
... perhaps , to explain that under the head of lakes I have included not only separate pieces of water , but also six inlets of the sea , such as Strang- ford Lough and the like . Still more to the point is it to mention that of the lakes ...
Side 427
... perhaps , not always in a position to them . CELTIC FOLKLORE LAT [ C t disinclined to seize every oppor their domain on the earth's surface that this was once a universal cree ther in possession of these island This may well have ...
... perhaps , not always in a position to them . CELTIC FOLKLORE LAT [ C t disinclined to seize every oppor their domain on the earth's surface that this was once a universal cree ther in possession of these island This may well have ...
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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