Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Bind 2Clarendon Press, 1901 - 718 sider |
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Side 416
... gives a sketch of the story of the country overflowed by the neighbouring portion of Cardigan Bay , mention- ing , p . 645 , that once on a time there were great cities on the banks of the Dovey and the Disynni . ' Cities with marble ...
... gives a sketch of the story of the country overflowed by the neighbouring portion of Cardigan Bay , mention- ing , p . 645 , that once on a time there were great cities on the banks of the Dovey and the Disynni . ' Cities with marble ...
Side 417
... give back that fair city to light and air , it is keeping it as a trust but for a time , and even now sometimes , though very rarely , eyes gazing down through the green waters can see not only the fluted glistering sand dotted here and ...
... give back that fair city to light and air , it is keeping it as a trust but for a time , and even now sometimes , though very rarely , eyes gazing down through the green waters can see not only the fluted glistering sand dotted here and ...
Side 424
... gives an instance of the contrary 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 ...
... gives an instance of the contrary 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 ...
Side 427
... give offence to some under- ground divinity or other connected with the world of waters . That divinity avenged the annoyance or offence given him by causing water to burst forth and form a lake forthwith . The nearness of such ...
... give offence to some under- ground divinity or other connected with the world of waters . That divinity avenged the annoyance or offence given him by causing water to burst forth and form a lake forthwith . The nearness of such ...
Side 433
... gives a story which illustrates the statement , at the same time that it vividly reminds one of that part of the Conwy legend which ( p . 130 ) represents the afanc resting his head on the lap of the damsel forming one of the dramatis ...
... gives a story which illustrates the statement , at the same time that it vividly reminds one of that part of the Conwy legend which ( p . 130 ) represents the afanc resting his head on the lap of the damsel forming one of the dramatis ...
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afanc Amen Corner ancient Arthur Aryan boar Book Brythonic called Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire cave Celtic Celts Clarendon Press Cúchulainn Dictionary Dinas Dôn Dun Cow dwarf Dwyfan Dyfed Edidit English fairies folklore genitive Glossary Goidelic Grammar Greek Grugyn Gwydion half-morocco HENRY FROWDE History ILyn India Paper instance Introduction and Notes Ireland Irish ISAAC BAYLEY BALFOUR king Kulhwch lake language Latin legend Literature and Philology Litt.D LL.D London M.A. Crown 8vo M.A. Extra fcap M.A. Second Edition M.A. Third Edition Mabinogi Mabinogion MAX MÜLLER meaning Medium 8vo mentioned neighbourhood Oeth origin Owen Lawgoch Oxford Mabinogion Paper covers place-names poem probably Prydain Pryderi Pwyll race reader regarded Revised Rhita RHYS river Small 4to Snowdon stiff covers stone story suppose swine Taliessin Text told Tomi Translated Triad Tuatha Dé Danann Twrch Trwyth W. W. SKEAT Wales Welsh word
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Side 551 - Mabinogion, is how evidently the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret.; he is like a peasant building his 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.
Side 59 - Barnabas, The Editio Princeps of the Epistle of, by Archbishop Ussher, as printed at Oxford, AD 1642, and preserved in an imperfect form in the Bodleian Library. With a Dissertation by JH BACKHOUSE, MA Small 4to, 3*.
Side 647 - ... diffused itself through all his frame, although he had never seen her. And his father inquired of him, "What has come over thee, my son, and what aileth thee?" "My stepmother has declared to me that I shall never have a wife until I obtain Olwen, the daughter of Yspadaden Penkawr." "That will be 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.
Side 476 - Than syr Bedwere toke the kyng vpon his backe and so wente wyth hym to that water syde, & whan they were at the water syde, euyn fast by the banke houed a lytyl barge wyth many fayr ladyes in hit, & emonge hem al was a quene, and al they had blacke hoodes, and al they wepte and shryked whan they sawe Kyng Arthur. Now put me in to the barge, sayd the kyng and so he dyd softelye.
Side 647 - Penkawr." And the youth blushed, and the love of the maiden diffused itself through all his frame, although he had never seen her And his father inquired of him, " What has come over thee my son, and what aileth thee ? " " My stepmother has declared to me that I shall never...
Side 81 - Index Kewensis. An enumeration of the genera and species of flowering plants from the time of Linnaeus to the year 1885, inclusive, together with their authors' names, the works in which they were first published, their native countries and their synonyms.
Side 67 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
Side 614 - And, as the story says, she bore him nine months, and when she was delivered of him, she could not find it in her heart 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.
Side 662 - Thus, in the opinion of these savages, every conception is what we are wont to call an immaculate conception, being brought about by the entrance into the mother of a spirit apart from any contact with the other sex. Students of folk-lore have long been familiar with notions of this sort occurring in the stories of the birth of miraculous personages...
Side 670 - ... which being come into the country, he dispersed here and there among his friends, lurking by day and walking by night, for fear of his adversaries; and such of the country as happened to have a sight of him and of his followers, said they were fayries, and so ran away.