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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... return to the subject, though I always wondered what in the world it could mean. A few years ago, however, I happened to converse with one of the most charming and accomplished of Welsh ladies, when she chanced to mention Henri Martin's.
... happened that one day they were together at a funeral, where, in the midst of the mourning and grief at the house of the deceased, she appeared in the highest and gayest spirits, and indulged in immoderate fits of laughter, which so ...
... happened in the spring of the year, and there were four oxen ploughing in one of the fields; to these she cried: Pedwar eidion glas Sydd ary maes, Deuwch chwithau Yniach adre! The four grey oxen, That are on the field, Come you also ...
... happened to have quarrelled for the third time, she was heard early in the morning driving the cattle towards the lake with these words: Prw dre', Prw dre', prw'r gwarthegi dre'; Prw Milfach a Malfach, pedair Llualfach, Alfach ac Ali ...
... happened to be thick mist on the 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 ...