Gwydel

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: But, says the writer, it is not fated to be always in vain, for there is a tradition in the valley that it is a Gwydel, ' Goidel, Irishman/ who is to have these treasures, and that it will happen in t (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "But, says the writer, it is not fated to be always in vain, for there is a tradition in the valley that it is a Gwydel, ' Goidel, Irishman/ who is to have these treasures, and that it will happen in this wise: — ^A Gwydel will come to the neighbourhood to be a shepherd, and one day when he goes up the mountain to see to the sheep, just when it pleases the fates a black sheep with a speckled head will run before him and make straight for the cave: the sheep will go in, with the Gwydel in pursuit trying to catch him."

• relationship: Thus, for instance, he goes on to say, if a man proves changeable, he is said to have become a Gwydel (Y mae tvedt troi *n IVydel)f or if one is very shameless and cheeky he is called a Gwydel and tol (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "Thus, for instance, he goes on to say, if a man proves changeable, he is said to have become a Gwydel (Y mae tvedt troi *n IVydel)f or if one is very shameless and cheeky he is called a Gwydel and told to hold his tongue (Taw yr hen Wydet); and a number of such locutions used by our people proves, he thinks, the former prevalence of much contention between the two sister-nations."