...poems of Wales provided evidence even in those distant periods of a still earlier culture— " stones " not of this building " but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical." affection upon the service rendered by its devoted sons to the Isles of the Southern Seas, to Madagascar,...

...story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret. ... In the medieval stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh. 1 ' 10 The result is that even readers like Arnold and Rhys, who are most expert at making inspired...

...materials of which he knows not the history, or knows only a glimmering tradition merely:— stones ‘not of this building,' but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. (51) Arnold's attention to the building blocks rather than the edifice itself was to guide Mabinogi...

...materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely; — stones ‘not of this building', but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical (51). Rather than refuting Nash's charge, Arnold mounts a makeshift defence of Celtic literature by...

...full of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely: stones ‘not of this building', but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical.” His heroes “are no medi¿val personages: they belong to an older, pagan, mythological world “....