Atherne

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attribution: This man Atherne is described as inhospitable, stingy, and greedy to the last degree (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "This man Atherne is described as inhospitable, stingy, and greedy to the last degree."

• attestation: As he was coolly walking away with them, Atherne cried out after him, ' What is thy name (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "As he was coolly walking away with them, Atherne cried out after him, ' What is thy name?'"

• attestation: The story goes on to say that Atherne neither saw his meal any more nor succeeded in making a satire on the name of the stranger, who accordingly got away unscathed (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "The story goes on to say that Atherne neither saw his meal any more nor succeeded in making a satire on the name of the stranger, who accordingly got away unscathed."

• attestation: For in describing the poet Atherne, who was notorious for his stinginess (p (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "For in describing the poet Atherne, who was notorious for his stinginess (p. 635}, the story-teller emphasizes his words by representing him taking from Mider three of his dwarfs and stationing them around his own house, in order that their truculent looks and rude words might drive away anybody who came to seek hospitality or to present an unwelcome request^, a rfile which recalls that of Edern ab Nud's dwarf already mentioned (p. 672)."