The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and RomanceSquire, Charles
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The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and Romance
Squire, Charles
Celts -- Folklore; Mythology, Celtic
So translated by Lady Guest. Professor Rhys, however, renders it, “in
whom God has put the instinct of the demons of Annwn”. _Arthurian
Legend_, p. 341.
Footnote 289:
Lady Guest’s _Mabinogion_. Note to “Kulhwch and Olwen”.
Footnote 290:
Black Book of Caermarthen, poem XXXIII. Vol. I, p. 293, of Skene’s
_Four Ancient Books_.
Footnote 291:
I have taken the liberty of omitting a few lines whose connection with
their context is not very apparent.
Footnote 292:
Gwyn was said to specially frequent the summits of hills.
Footnote 293:
This line is Professor Rhys’s. Skene translates it: “Whilst I am
called Gwyn the son of Nudd”.
Footnote 294:
I have here preferred Rhys’s rendering: _Arthurian Legend_, p. 364.
Footnote 295:
A name for Hades, of unknown meaning.
Footnote 296:
Dormarth means “Death’s Door”. Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, pp. 156-158.
Footnote 297:
Rhys has it:
“Dormarth, red-nosed, ground-grazing—
On him we perceived the speed
Of thy wandering on Cloud Mount.”
—_Arthurian Legend_, p. 156.
Footnote 298:
Rhys: _Arthurian Legend_, p. 383. Skene translates: “I am alive, they
in their graves!”
Footnote 299:
Rhys: _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 561.
Footnote 300:
Rhys: _Hibbert Lectures_, pp. 561-563.
Footnote 301:
Dyer: _Studies of the Gods in Greece_, p. 48.
Gwyn, son of Nudd, had a brother, Edeyrn, of whom so little has come
down to us that he finds his most suitable place in a foot-note.
Unmentioned in the earliest Welsh legends, he first appears as a
knight of Arthur’s court in the _Red Book_ stories of “Kulhwch and
Olwen”, the “Dream of Rhonabwy”, and “Geraint, the Son of Erbin”. He
accompanied Arthur on his expedition to Rome, and is said also to have
slain “three most atrocious giants” at Brentenol (Brent Knoll), near
Glastonbury. His name occurs in a catalogue of Welsh saints, where he
is described as a bard, and the chapel of Bodedyrn, near Holyhead,
still stands to his honour. Modern readers will know him from
Tennyson’s Idyll of “Geraint and Enid”, which follows very closely the
Welsh romance of “Geraint, the Son of Erbin”.
Footnote 302:
Rhys—who calls him “a Cambrian Pluto”: _Lectures on Welsh Philology_,
p. 414.
Footnote 303:
_Book of Taliesin_, XLIII. _The Death-song of Dylan, Son of the Wave_,
Vol. I, p. 288 of Skene.
Footnote 304:
Rhys: _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 387.
Footnote 305:
Rhys: _Celtic Folklore_, p. 210.
Footnote 306:
_i.e._ The Lion with the Steady Hand.
Footnote 307:
See Rhys: _Hibbert Lectures_, note to p. 237.
Footnote 308:
Rhys: _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 240.
Footnote 309:
Retold from the Mabinogi of _Math, Son of Mathonwy_, in Lady Guest’s
_Mabinogion_.
Footnote 310:
The Iolo Manuscripts: collected by Edward Williams, the bard, at about
the beginning of the nineteenth century—_The Tale of Rhitta Gawr_.
Footnote 311:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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