Carnarvon

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Thus the anglicizing districts have helped me very little, while the more Welsh county of Carnarvon easily takes the lead; but I am inclined to regard the anomalous features of that list as in a great (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Preface)

  "Thus the anglicizing districts have helped me very little, while the more Welsh county of Carnarvon easily takes the lead; but I am inclined to regard the anomalous features of that list as in a great measure due to accident."

• attestation: Once on a time it happened to be market day at Carnarvon, whither the husband and wife thought of riding on ponies, hke all the farmers of that time (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Once on a time it happened to be market day at Carnarvon, whither the husband and wife thought of riding on ponies, hke all the farmers of that time."

• attestation: It is right to add that the name appears in the Record of Carnarvon (pp (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "It is right to add that the name appears in the Record of Carnarvon (pp. 12, 25, 26) as Creweryon, which carries us back to the first half of the fourteenth century."

• attestation: That is one source from which I got my knowledge of folklore; but this ceased when we moved from Bedgelert to Carnarvon in the year 1841 (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "That is one source from which I got my knowledge of folklore; but this ceased when we moved from Bedgelert to Carnarvon in the year 1841."

• attestation: Carnarvon Eistedfod of 1880:— The traditions (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "and as he expressed himself in his essay for the competition on folklore at the Carnarvon Eistedfod of 1880:— The traditions"

• attestation: One night, as he was going home from Carnarvon market, he saw a number of the fair folks in a turbary not far from his path (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "One night, as he was going home from Carnarvon market, he saw a number of the fair folks in a turbary not far from his path."

• attestation: Carnarvon market (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "as he was going home from Carnarvon market"

• attribution: But one morning, when the husband wanted to go to the fair at Carnarvon, he went out to catch a filly that was grazing in the field by the house; but for the life of him he could not catch her, and he (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "But one morning, when the husband wanted to go to the fair at Carnarvon, he went out to catch a filly that was grazing in the field by the house; but for the life of him he could not catch her, and he called to his wife to come to assist him."

• attestation: The Brufs have Crugyeiih the only time it occurs, and the Record of Carnarvon (several times) Krukyth (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "The Brufs have Crugyeiih the only time it occurs, and the Record of Carnarvon (several times) Krukyth."

• attestation: Carnarvon to hire a servant maid at the Allhallows' ^ fair; (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "They went to Carnarvon to hire a servant maid at the Allhallows' ^ fair;"

• relationship: Not long afterwards the old midwife went to Carnarvon to market, when she saw the husband, and said to him, "How is Eilian (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Not long afterwards the old midwife went to Carnarvon to market, when she saw the husband, and said to him, "How is Eilian?""

• attestation: Then came the usual accident in catching a horse in order to go to a fair at Carnarvon, and the immediate disappearance of the wife (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Then came the usual accident in catching a horse in order to go to a fair at Carnarvon, and the immediate disappearance of the wife."

• attestation: So in the ILeyn name Sam FyVieym the second vocable represents Maelteym, in the Record of Carnarvon (p (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "So in the ILeyn name Sam FyVieym the second vocable represents Maelteym, in the Record of Carnarvon (p. 38) Mayltern: it is now sounded Mythym with the second^ short and accented."

• relationship: Rhys' mother's family, who lived in the parish of Waen Fawr, in the neighbourhood of Carnarvon (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Rhys' mother's family, who lived in the parish of Waen Fawr, in the neighbourhood of Carnarvon."

• attestation: The story goes that one day, when he was in his prime, he set out from Perth y Celyn at two in the morning to walk to Carnarvon to pay his rent: there was no talk in those days of a carriage for anybo (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "The story goes that one day, when he was in his prime, he set out from Perth y Celyn at two in the morning to walk to Carnarvon to pay his rent: there was no talk in those days of a carriage for anybody."

• attestation: On the second day of the year 1893 I paid him a visit at Chwilog, on the Carnarvon and Avon Wen Railway, and asked him many questions: these he not only answered with the utmost willingness, but he al (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "On the second day of the year 1893 I paid him a visit at Chwilog, on the Carnarvon and Avon Wen Railway, and asked him many questions: these he not only answered with the utmost willingness, but he also showed me the unpublished materials which he had collected."

• attestation: Morris, of Portmadoc, barrister-at-law, some account of Ffynnon Faglan, or Baglan's Well, in the parish of ILanfaglan, near Carnarvon (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Morris, of Portmadoc, barrister-at-law, some account of Ffynnon Faglan, or Baglan's Well, in the parish of ILanfaglan, near Carnarvon."

• attestation: Roberts, of Cefn y Coed, near Carnarvon, as follows:— ' The old people who would be likely to know anything about Ffynnon Faglan have all died (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Roberts, of Cefn y Coed, near Carnarvon, as follows:— ' The old people who would be likely to know anything about Ffynnon Faglan have all died."

• attribution: 376: here is another which I translate from a version in Hugh Humphreys' JLyfr Gwybodaeth Gyffredinol (Carnarvon), second series, vol (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "One story about the formation of Bala Lake, or ILyn Tegid^ as it is called in Welsh, has been given at p. 376: here is another which I translate from a version in Hugh Humphreys' JLyfr Gwybodaeth Gyffredinol (Carnarvon), second series, vol. i, no. 2, p. i."