Echel

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attribution: But one of the most remarkable statements in her note is the following: — 'Another singular coincidence maybe traced between the name of a brook in this neighbourhood, called Echel, and the Echel Ford (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "But one of the most remarkable statements in her note is the following: — 'Another singular coincidence maybe traced between the name of a brook in this neighbourhood, called Echel, and the Echel Fordwyttwl! who is recorded in the tale as having been slain at this period of the chase.'"

• attribution: I have been unable to discover any clue to a brook called Echel (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "I have been unable to discover any clue to a brook called Echel, but one called Egel occurs in the right place; so I take it that Lady Charlotte Guest's"

• attestation: informants tacitly identified the name with that of Echel (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "informants tacitly identified the name with that of Echel."

• attestation: In any case, one may assume that the death of the hero Echel was introduced to account for the name of the brook Egel (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "In any case, one may assume that the death of the hero Echel was introduced to account for the name of the brook Egel."

• attestation: Now, if my surmises as to Echel and Egel are identified as near the truth, their history must be (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Now, if my surmises as to Echel and Egel are near the truth, their history must be"