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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... perhaps, the place to give another tale, according to which the man goes to the Lake Maiden's country, instead of her settling with him at his home. I owe it to the kindness of Mr. William Jones, of Regent Place, Llangollen, a native of ...
... perhaps, to be no great difficulty in ascertaining this, as some of the Penrhyn estate appears to have been the subject of litigation in times gone by. Before leaving Mr. Hughes' notes, I must here give his too brief account of another ...
... perhaps, in a great measure served to rescue such legends from utter oblivion. As to a church at Corwrion, the tradition does not seem to be an old one, and it appears founded on one of the popular etymologies of the word Corwrion ...
... perhaps give us valuable information as to what may have been its status at a still earlier date. VI. Here, for the sake of comparison with the Northwalian stories in which the fairy wife runs away from her husband in consequence of his ...
... perhaps of Cawelllyn, 'Creel or Basket Lake.' Its old name is said to have been Llyn Tarddenni. 33:1 Tyn is a shortening of tyddyn, which is not quite forgotten in the case of Tyn Gadlas or Tyn Siarlas (for Tyddyn Siarlys), 'Charles ...