Bran

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: H3rwel speaks also of a cave beneath Castett Dinas Bran, near ILangotten, as containing much treasure, which will only be disclosed to a boy followed by a white dog with ttygaid arian, ' silver eyes,' (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "H3rwel speaks also of a cave beneath Castett Dinas Bran, near ILangotten, as containing much treasure, which will only be disclosed to a boy followed by a white dog with ttygaid arian, ' silver eyes,' explained to mean light eyes: every such dog is said to see the wind."

• relationship: I think that I am right in recognizing that legend in the Mabinogi of Branwen, daughter of ILyr (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "I think that I am right in recognizing that legend in the Mabinogi of Branwen, daughter of ILyr."

• attribution: There we read that, when Bran and his men crossed from Wales to Ireland, the intervening sea consisted merely of two navigable rivers, called ILi and Archan (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "There we read that, when Bran and his men crossed from Wales to Ireland, the intervening sea consisted merely of two navigable rivers, called ILi and Archan."

• relationship: What has happened in the way of linguistic change in one of our stories, the Kulhwch, may have happened in others, say in the four branches of the Mabmogi, namely, PwyB, prince of Dyved; Branwen, daug (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "What has happened in the way of linguistic change in one of our stories, the Kulhwch, may have happened in others, say in the four branches of the Mabmogi, namely, PwyB, prince of Dyved; Branwen, daughter of ILyr; Math, son of Mathonwy; and Manawydan, son of ILyr."

• relationship: Similariy with his brother BrSn, and his sister Branwen, except that she has not been identified in Irish story (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Similariy with his brother BrSn, and his sister Branwen, except that she has not been identified in Irish story."

• attestation: He sat, as the Mabinogi of Branwen describes him, on the rock of Harlech, a figure too colossal for any house to contain or any ship to carry (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "He sat, as the Mabinogi of Branwen describes him, on the rock of Harlech, a figure too colossal for any house to contain or any ship to carry."

• attestation: Head,' mentioned in the Mabinogi oi Branwen' (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Head,' mentioned in the Mabinogi oi Branwen'."

• attestation: The Mabinogi goes on to relate how Bran's companions began to enjoy, subject to certain conditions, his ' Venerable Head's' society, which involved banquets of a fabulous duration and of a nature not (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "The Mabinogi goes on to relate how Bran's companions began to enjoy, subject to certain conditions, his ' Venerable Head's' society, which involved banquets of a fabulous duration and of a nature not readily to be surpassed by those around the Holy Grail."

• attestation: Branwen and Manawydan (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "probably all that can be historical of the Caswatton of the Mabinogion of Branwen and Manawydan"

• attestation: See the story as recently edited by Professor Kuno Meyer in Nutt's Voyage of Bran, iL 991- 300, where, however, the sense of % la with its allusion to the fall of Lucifer is missed in the translation (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "See the story as recently edited by Professor Kuno Meyer in Nutt's Voyage of Bran, iL 991- 300, where, however, the sense of % la with its allusion to the fall of Lucifer is missed in the translation."

• attestation: Gttilois, especially the chapter entitled Lts Dmldcs, pp. 359-76, and Nutt's Voyogt of Bran, W. 107-13 (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "Gttilois, especially the chapter entitled Lts Dmldcs, pp. 359-76, and Nutt's Voyogt of Bran, W. 107-13."

• attribution: Similarly when Bran, on the eve of his expedition to Ireland, left seven princes, or knights as they are also called, to take charge of his dominions, we have an instance of the kind (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "Similarly when Bran, on the eve of his expedition to Ireland, left seven princes, or knights as they are also called, to take charge of his dominions, we have an instance of the kind."

• attestation: Branwen is o achaSs (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "But the wording of the Mabinogi of Branwen is o achaSs"

• attribution: The subject, however, of magic and its accessories is far too vast to be treated here: it has been touched upon here and there in some of the previous chapters, and I may add that wizardry and magic f (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "The subject, however, of magic and its accessories is far too vast to be treated here: it has been touched upon here and there in some of the previous chapters, and I may add that wizardry and magic form the machinery, so to say, of the stories called in Welsh the * Four Branches of the 7l/aAf>io^7 namely those of Pwytt, Branwen, Manawydan, and Math."

• attribution: Take, for instance, Bran's colossal figure, to which attention has already been called, pp. 552-3 above (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Take, for instance, Bran's colossal figure, to which attention has already been called, pp. 552-3 above."

• attribution: Bran was too large to enter a house or go on board a ship: is he to be regarded as the outcome of Celtic imagination, or of that of a people that preceded the Celts in Celtic lands (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Bran was too large to enter a house or go on board a ship: is he to be regarded as the outcome of Celtic imagination, or of that of a people that preceded the Celts in Celtic lands?"

• attestation: Compare, however, the Land of the Women in the Voyagt of MaUdun (Joyce, pp. 15^-^, and in Meyer and Nutt*s Vcyagi of Bran, i. 30-3 (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Compare, however, the Land of the Women in the Voyagt of MaUdun (Joyce, pp. 15^-^, and in Meyer and Nutt*s Vcyagi of Bran, i. 30-3."