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ILyn Du'r Ardu

ILyn Du'r Ardu — place in celtic tradition.

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Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • relationship: In the story of ILyn Du'r Ardu, p (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

    "In the story of ILyn Du'r Ardu, p. 32, he has a consort who appears with him to join in giving the parental sanction to the marriage which their daughter was about to make with the Snowdon shepherd."

  • relationship: But it will be remembered that in the case of the story of ILyn Du'r Ardu two parents appeared with the lake maiden— her father and her mother — ^and we may suppose that they were divinities of the wa (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

    "But it will be remembered that in the case of the story of ILyn Du'r Ardu two parents appeared with the lake maiden— her father and her mother — ^and we may suppose that they were divinities of the waterworld."

  • relationship: The modern Welsh usage has, it is seen, departed far from this, but not so far the folklore: the afanc is a male, and we have a figure of the same sex appearing as the father of the lake maiden in the (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

    "The modern Welsh usage has, it is seen, departed far from this, but not so far the folklore: the afanc is a male, and we have a figure of the same sex appearing as the father of the lake maiden in the Fan Fach story, and in that of ILyn Du'r Ardu; the same, too, was the sex of the chief dweller of ILyn Cwm Lwch; the same remark is applicable also to the greatest divinity of these islands— the greatest, at any rate, so far as the scanty traces of his cult enable one to become acquainted with him."

Appears in: Places, Entities in Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Tradition