Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Bind 2Clarendon Press, 1901 - 718 sider |
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... race or other in possession of these islands . Besides the Irish legends already mentioned ( pp . 382 , 384 ) of the formation of Lough Neagh , Lough Ree , and others , witness the legendary annals of early Ireland , which , by the side ...
... race or other in possession of these islands . Besides the Irish legends already mentioned ( pp . 382 , 384 ) of the formation of Lough Neagh , Lough Ree , and others , witness the legendary annals of early Ireland , which , by the side ...
Side 440
... race was drowned except Dwyfan and Dwyfach , who escaped in a mastless ship : it was from them that the island of Prydain was repeopled . A similar Triad , iii . 97 , but evidently of a different origin , has already been mentioned as ...
... race was drowned except Dwyfan and Dwyfach , who escaped in a mastless ship : it was from them that the island of Prydain was repeopled . A similar Triad , iii . 97 , but evidently of a different origin , has already been mentioned as ...
Side 449
... race that had developed on a larger scale the idea of a patriarchal or kingly ruler holding sway over a comparatively wide area . So Nudons may here be treated as ruled out of the dis- cussion as to the origin of the fairies , to which ...
... race that had developed on a larger scale the idea of a patriarchal or kingly ruler holding sway over a comparatively wide area . So Nudons may here be treated as ruled out of the dis- cussion as to the origin of the fairies , to which ...
Side 455
... race , and some may be the representatives of the ghosts of departed men and women , regarded as one's ancestors ; but there can hardly be any doubt that others , and those possibly not the least interesting , have originated in the ...
... race , and some may be the representatives of the ghosts of departed men and women , regarded as one's ancestors ; but there can hardly be any doubt that others , and those possibly not the least interesting , have originated in the ...
Side 464
... race of Brythons , did not , according to the Troed yr Aur people , tarry in a foreign land , but somewhere in Wales , not far from Offa's Dyke . They used to say that one Dafyð Meirig of Bettws Bledrws , having quarrelled with his ...
... race of Brythons , did not , according to the Troed yr Aur people , tarry in a foreign land , but somewhere in Wales , not far from Offa's Dyke . They used to say that one Dafyð Meirig of Bettws Bledrws , having quarrelled with his ...
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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.