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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... this way the first six chapters and portions of some of the others appeared from time to time in the publications of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and in those of the FolkLore Society. This would have allowed me to divide the.
... chapters in question had in some instances to be considerably lengthened and in some others modified in other ways. Then as to the deductive half of the work, it may be mentioned that certain portions of the folklore, though ever apt to ...
... chapters mark out the stories connected with the fairies, whether of the lakes or of the dry land, as the richest lode to be exploited in the mine of Celtic folklore. That work is attempted in the later chapters; and the analysis of ...
... no law of agency was understood ... There is no law to judge of the lawless, or canon by which a dream may be criticised. CHARLES LAMB'S Essays of Elia Chapter I Undine's Kymric Sisters Undine, liebes Bildeben du, Seit.
John Rhys. Chapter. I. Undine's. Kymric. Sisters. Undine, liebes Bildeben du, Seit ich zuerst aus alten Kunden Dein seltsam Leuchten aufgefunden, Wie sangst du oft mein Herz in Ruh! DE LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ. THE ... Chapter I Undine's Kymric ...