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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... account to step out of the ring. The llawharn then proceeded to trafod 'i lyfrau, or "busy himself with his books"; and there soon appeared a monstrous bull, bellowing dreadfully; but the plucky Gethin held his ground, and the bull.
John Rhys. but the plucky Gethin held his ground, and the bull vanished. Next came a terrible object, a "flywheel of fire," which made straight for poor Gethin and made him swerve out of the ring. Thereupon the wheel assumed the form of ...
... ground, lest they should come across the Tylwyth Teg dancing, and be carried away to their abodebeneath the lake. They were always, she says, supposed to live in the lakes; and the one here alluded to was Llyn Dwythwch, which is one of ...
... ground between the Ogwen and another stream which bears the name of 'Afon Cegin Arthur,' or the River of Arthur's Kitchen, and most of the houses and fields about have names which have suggested various notions to the people there: such ...
... ground. This is referred to in a modern rhyme, which runs thus: A'r Tylwyth Tegyn dauwnsi'on sionc O gylch magïen Pen y Bonc. With the fairies nimbly dancing round The glowworm on the Rising Ground. Dewi Glan Ffrydlas has kindly gone to ...