Drws y Coed

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Once on a time, a long while ago, there lived at upper Drws y Coed a youth, who was joyous and active, brave and determined of heart (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Once on a time, a long while ago, there lived at upper Drws y Coed a youth, who was joyous and active, brave and determined of heart."

• attestation: and it reaches from Cwm Hafod RufiFyd along the slope of the mountain of Drws y Coed as far as ILyn y D3rwarchen (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "and it reaches from Cwm Hafod RufiFyd along the slope of the mountain of Drws y Coed as far as ILyn y D3rwarchen. The old people of former times used to find much pleasure and amusement in this district in listening every moonlight night to the charming music of the fair family"

• attestation: Yr oedt gwr ieuanc gymydogaeth Drws y Coed y (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Yr oedt gwr ieuanc gymydogaeth Drws y Coed yn"

• relationship: The language he used was his own, but there is no reason to think that he invented any of the incidents: — ' The farmer of Drws y Coed's son was one misty day engaged as a shepherd on the side of the (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "The language he used was his own, but there is no reason to think that he invented any of the incidents: — ' The farmer of Drws y Coed's son was one misty day engaged as a shepherd on the side of the mountain, a little below Cwm Marchnad, and, as he crossed a rushy flat, he saw a wonderfully handsome little woman standing under a clump of rushes."

• attestation: It was rumoured that a vast sum of money as dowry had arrived with the pretty lady at Drws y Coed on the evening of her nuptials (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "It was rumoured that a vast sum of money as dowry had arrived with the pretty lady at Drws y Coed on the evening of her nuptials."

• relationship: Before the husband reached Drws y Coed his wife had left him, and it is supposed that she fled to ILwyn y Forwyn, and thence to the world below to Faery (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Before the husband reached Drws y Coed his wife had left him, and it is supposed that she fled to ILwyn y Forwyn, and thence to the world below to Faery."

• attestation: Their descendants owned Drws y Coed for many generations, and they intermarried and mixed with the people of the district (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Their descendants owned Drws y Coed for many generations, and they intermarried and mixed with the people of the district."