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Side 418
The only Welsh fairy represented counting is made to do it all by fives : she
counts un , dau , tri , pedwar , pump ; un , dau , tri , pedwar , pump , as hard as
her tongue can go . For on the number of See Choice Notes , p . 92 , and Gerald
Griffin ...
The only Welsh fairy represented counting is made to do it all by fives : she
counts un , dau , tri , pedwar , pump ; un , dau , tri , pedwar , pump , as hard as
her tongue can go . For on the number of See Choice Notes , p . 92 , and Gerald
Griffin ...
Side 420
The case may be represented thus : a divinity is offended by a man , and for
some reason or other the former wreaks his vengeance , not on the offender , but
on his descendants . This minimum granted , it is easy to see , that in time the ...
The case may be represented thus : a divinity is offended by a man , and for
some reason or other the former wreaks his vengeance , not on the offender , but
on his descendants . This minimum granted , it is easy to see , that in time the ...
Side 422
It can hardly have the other meaning , as the sinning ancestors are represented
as then still living . The case of the Tyno Helig legend is different , as we have the
time announced to the offending ancestor described as amser dy 422 [ CH .
It can hardly have the other meaning , as the sinning ancestors are represented
as then still living . The case of the Tyno Helig legend is different , as we have the
time announced to the offending ancestor described as amser dy 422 [ CH .
Side 423
... living to see the birth of his first grandson postulated no extraordinary longevity
. The question why fairy vengeance is so often represented deferred for a long
time can no longer be put off . Here three or four answers suggest themselves : 1
.
... living to see the birth of his first grandson postulated no extraordinary longevity
. The question why fairy vengeance is so often represented deferred for a long
time can no longer be put off . Here three or four answers suggest themselves : 1
.
Side 429
Thus the power of the water spirit is represented as equal to producing excessive
wet weather and destructive floods . He is in all probability not to be dissociated
from the afanc in the Conwy story which has already been given ( pp . 130 - 3 ) .
Thus the power of the water spirit is represented as equal to producing excessive
wet weather and destructive floods . He is in all probability not to be dissociated
from the afanc in the Conwy story which has already been given ( pp . 130 - 3 ) .
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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
Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Bind 2 Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Sir John Rhys |
| Forfatter | Sir John Rhys |
| Udgiver | Clarendon Press, 1901 |
| Længde | 718 sider |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |