Brynach

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Brynach and Menwaed or Mengwaed ' seem to be the names underlying the misreadings in ii (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Brynach and Menwaed or Mengwaed ' seem to be the names underlying the misreadings in ii. 56; but it is quite possible that Brynach, probably for an Irish Bronach, has here superseded an earlier Umach or Eurnach also a Goidel, t9 whom I shall have to return in another chapter."

• comparison: Similarly with regard to Brynach's Eagle one has nothing to say, except that common parlance some time or other would seem to have associated the eagle in some way with Brynach the Goidel (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Similarly with regard to Brynach's Eagle one has nothing to say, except that common parlance some time or other would seem to have associated the eagle in some way with Brynach the Goidel."

• comparison: But the details are conspicuous by their scarcity in Welsh literature, though Brynach's Eagle is probably to be identified with the Aqtiila Fabitlosa of Erj-ri, of which Giraldus makes a curious menti (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "But the details are conspicuous by their scarcity in Welsh literature, though Brynach's Eagle is probably to be identified with the Aqtiila Fabitlosa of Erj-ri, of which Giraldus makes a curious mention '."