Bangor

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Davies told me that he knew a tale of the sort from his youth, as current in the parishes of ILanttechid and ILandegai, near Bangor (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Davies told me that he knew a tale of the sort from his youth, as current in the parishes of ILanttechid and ILandegai, near Bangor."

• comparison: Davies regarded the ILantlechid legend as so very like the one he got about Cwettyn Lake and the Waen Fawr, that he has not written the former out at length, but merely pointed out the following diffe (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Davies regarded the ILantlechid legend as so very like the one he got about Cwettyn Lake and the Waen Fawr, that he has not written the former out at length, but merely pointed out the following differences: (i) Instead of Cwettyn, the lake in the former is the pool of Corwrion, in the parish of ILandegai, near Bangor."

• attestation: Hughes has a great deal to say: among other things, that he had boats on Corwrion lake, and that he was wont to present the citizens of Bangor yearly with.300 fat geese reared on the waters of the sam (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes has a great deal to say: among other things, that he had boats on Corwrion lake, and that he was wont to present the citizens of Bangor yearly with.300 fat geese reared on the waters of the same."

• attestation: This reminds one of the name of the pretty hollow running inland from the railway station at Bangor (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "This reminds one of the name of the pretty hollow running inland from the railway station at Bangor."

• attribution: Here one reads of a tract of country supposed to have once extended from the Gogarth S ' the Great Orme,' to Bangor, and from ILanfair Fechan to Ynys Seiriol, 'Priestholme or Puffin Island/ and of its (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "Here one reads of a tract of country supposed to have once extended from the Gogarth S ' the Great Orme,' to Bangor, and from ILanfair Fechan to Ynys Seiriol, 'Priestholme or Puffin Island/ and of its belonging to a wicked prince named Helig ab Glannawc or Glannog*, from whom it was called Tyno Helig^ 'Helig's Hollow.'"

• attestation: narvonshire which drains into the sea between Conway and Bangor (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "narvonshire which drains into the sea between Conway and Bangor."

• relationship: It attaches itself to the Pool of Corwrion in the neighbourhood of Bangor; and it relates how a man married a fairy on the express condition that he was neither to know her name nor to touch her with (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "It attaches itself to the Pool of Corwrion in the neighbourhood of Bangor; and it relates how a man married a fairy on the express condition that he was neither to know her name nor to touch her with iron, on pain of her instantly leaving him."