Gwys

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attribution: Then a third of the swine is killed (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Then a third of the swine is killed, called Gwys, whereupon Twrch Trwyth went to Dyffryn Amanw, or the Vale of Amman, where he lost a banw and a benwic, a ' boar ' and a ' sow.'"

• attribution: A swine called Gwys is killed in the same neighbourhood still, where there is a river called GwySy falling into the Twrch (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "A swine called Gwys is killed in the same neighbourhood still, where there is a river called GwySy falling into the Twrch."

• attestation: Let us take an illustration: Gwys has already been mentioned more than once as a name applied to one of Twrch Trwyth's offspring (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Let us take an illustration: Gwys has already been mentioned more than once as a name applied to one of Twrch Trwyth's offspring."

• attestation: and the words used are very brief, to the following effect: — 'And then another of his swine was killed: Gwys was its name,' As a matter of fact, the scribe was labouring under a mistake, for he ought (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "and the words used are very brief, to the following effect: — 'And then another of his swine was killed: Gwys was its name,' As a matter of fact, the scribe was labouring under a mistake, for he ought to have said rather, 'And then another of his swine was killed: it was a sow '; since gwys was a word meaning a sow, and not the name of any individual hog."