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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... North Wales, especially Arfon. This is an interesting word, as it is no other than the English term 'long fetter,' borrowed into Welsh; as, in fact, it was also into Irish early enough to call for an article on it in Cormac's Irish ...
... North Cardiganshire, whose surname was pronounced Massn and written Mason or Mazon: as my mother was of this family, I have often heard it. The cawell, if I remember rightly, was said, in this instance, to have come from Scotland, to ...
John Rhys. three men who settled in North Cardiganshire. One had no descendants, but the other two, Mason and PeelI think his name was Peel, but I am only sure that it was not Welshhad so many, that the Masons, at any rate, are ...
... North Cardiganshire it is trwi, trwi, trwe fach, also pronounced sometimes with a surd r, produced by making the breath cause both lips to vibrate tR'wi, tR'wi, which can hardly be distinguished from pR'wi, pR'wi. For the more forcibly ...
... North Wales for his literary and antiquarian tastes. He was born in 1789 at Cefn y Meusydd near Tremadoc, where he continued to live till the day of his death, which was January 27, 1868. His literary remains, preceded by a short ...