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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... origin. The last of them, ffrit, is usually applied in Cardiganshire to anything worthless or insignificant, and the derivative, ffrityn, means one who has no go or perseverance in him: the feminine is ffriten. In Carnarvonshire my wife ...
... origin of which I do not know Edorai'r anwest, ede wan, Brwnty lle, ar Bont y Llan. The cord would snap, feeble yarn, At that nasty spot, Ponty Llan. Curiously enough, the same cawell story used to be said of a widely spread family in ...
... origin, and that their history was somehow uncanny, which was all, of course, duly resented. This helps, to some extent, to explain how names of doubtful origin have got into these tales, such as Smychiaid, Cowperiaid, Pellings ...
John Rhys. origin of a certain Trinio, of whom Mapes had more to say: Aliud non miraculum sed portentum nobis Walenses referunt. Wastinum Wastiniauc secus stagnum Brekeinauc [read Brecheinauc], quod in circuitu duo miliaria tenet ...
... origin. 69:1 The Oxford Mabinogion, p. 63; Guest, iii. 223. 72:1 See the Itinerarium Kambriæ, i. 2 (pp. 335), and Celtic Britain, p. 64. 73:1 As for example in the Archæologia Cambrensis for 1870, pp. 1928; see also 1872, pp. 1468. 74:1 ...