Celtic Folklore Welsh and ManxLibrary of Alexandria, 28. sep. 2020 TOWARDS the close of the seventies I began to collect Welsh folklore. I did so partly because others had set the example elsewhere, and partly in order to see whether Wales could boast of any story-tellers of the kind that delight the readers of Campbell'sPopular Tales of the West Highlands. I soon found what I was not wholly unprepared for, that as a rule I could not get a single story of any length from the mouths of any of my fellow countrymen, but a considerable number of bits of stories. |
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... Tylwyth Teg) on the surface of the tarn called Llyn Du'r Arddu, and how, from bantering and joking, their acquaintance ripened into courtship, when the father and mother of the lake maiden appeared to give the union their sanction, and ...
... Tylwyth Teg were dancing: it was only after a very hard struggle that he was able, at length, to get away from them. To this I may add the testimony of a lady, for whose veracity I can vouch, to the effect that, when she was a child in ...
... Tylwyth Tegyn Cwm Cwmglas. Yr oedd yn dweyd y byddai ar foreuau niwliog, tywyll, ym myndi le penodol yn Cwm Cwmglas gyda dsygiad o lefrith o'r fuches a thywel glan, ac yn ei roddi ar garreg; ac yn myndyno drachefn, acyn cael y llestryn ...
... Tylwyth Teg. Aeth i'r ty, a dechreuodd y lad ei holi, ac yntau yn gwrthod ateb; ymbiliai a'i dad, a dywedai eu bod yn berffaith onest iddo ef, ac y cai ef ychwaneg os cadwai'r peth yn ddirgelwch; ond os dywedai, nad oedd dim ychwaneg i ...
... Tylwyth Teg yr oedd yn eu cael, a hynny ar yr amod nad oedd iddweyd wrth neb. Mawr oedd edifeirwch yr hen bobl am ladd yr wydd oeddyn dodwy. Aethy bachgen i'r hen adeilad lawer gwaith ar olhyn, ond ni chafodd bythychwaneg o arian yno ...