Mabinogion

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attribution: Here Ynys y Ceuri inevitably recalls the fact that Britain is called Ynysy Kedyrn, or Island of the Mighty, in the Mabinogion, and also, in effect, in the story of Kulhwch and Olwen (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Here Ynys y Ceuri inevitably recalls the fact that Britain is called Ynysy Kedyrn, or Island of the Mighty, in the Mabinogion, and also, in effect, in the story of Kulhwch and Olwen."

• relationship: A Mab Saidi occurs in the Kulhwch story {Mabinogion, p (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "A Mab Saidi occurs in the Kulhwch story {Mabinogion, p. 106), also Cas, son of Saidi (ib. no); and in' Rhonabwy's Dream Kadyrieith, son of Saidi (ib. 160); but the latter vocable is Seidi in Triad ii. a6 (ib. 303)."

• attestation: by dim figures like that of the D6n of the Mabinogion (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "by dim figures like that of the D6n of the Mabinogion^"

• attestation: The history of the pigs is given, so to say, in the Mabinogion, Pwytt had been able to strike up a friendship and even an alliance with Arawn king of Annwvyn* or Annwn, which now means Hades or the ot (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "The history of the pigs is given, so to say, in the Mabinogion, Pwytt had been able to strike up a friendship and even an alliance with Arawn king of Annwvyn* or Annwn, which now means Hades or the other world; and they kept up their friendship partly by exchanging presents of horses, greyhounds, falcons, and any other things calculated to give gratification to the receiver of them."

• attestation: Lady Charlotte Guest, in a note to the Kulhwch story in her Mabinogion, ii (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Lady Charlotte Guest, in a note to the Kulhwch story in her Mabinogion, ii. 360, appears to have been astonished to find that Cam Cavait, as she writes it, was no fabulous mound but an actual ' mountain in the dis-' trict of Builth, to the south of Rhayader Gwy, and within sight of that town.'"

• attestation: Since then Professor Zimmer has gone further, and suggested that the Mabinogion are of Irish origin; but that I cannot quite admit (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Since then Professor Zimmer has gone further, and suggested that the Mabinogion are of Irish origin; but that I cannot quite admit."

• relationship: To return to the Mabinogion: I have long been inclined to identify ILwyd, son of Kilcoed, with the Irish Liath, son of Celtchar, of Cualu in the present county of Wicklow (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "To return to the Mabinogion: I have long been inclined to identify ILwyd, son of Kilcoed, with the Irish Liath, son of Celtchar, of Cualu in the present county of Wicklow."

• attribution: Liath, whose name means ' grey/ is described as the comeliest youth of noble rank among the fairies of Erin; and the only time the Welsh ILwyd, whose name also means * grey/ appears in the Mabinogion (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Liath, whose name means ' grey/ is described as the comeliest youth of noble rank among the fairies of Erin; and the only time the Welsh ILwyd, whose name also means * grey/ appears in the Mabinogion he is ascribed, not the comeliest figure, it is true, or the greatest personal beauty, but the most imposing disguise of a bishop attended by his suite: he was a great magician."

• attestation: But the reader should observe the relative position: the Tuatha De remain in power, while the children of Lir belong to the past, which is also the sequence in the Mabinogion (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "But the reader should observe the relative position: the Tuatha De remain in power, while the children of Lir belong to the past, which is also the sequence in the Mabinogion."

• attestation: When the Mabinogion were edited in their present form in a later atmosphere, this sort of phraseology was not natural to the editor, and he shows it when he comes to relate how (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "When the Mabinogion were edited in their present form in a later atmosphere, this sort of phraseology was not natural to the editor, and he shows it when he comes to relate how."

• attestation: Now, suppose that in a society permeated by the crude kind of notiqjis of which one finds traces in the Mabinogion and other old Welsh literature, a man arose who had a turn for philosophizing and try (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "Now, suppose that in a society permeated by the crude kind of notiqjis of which one finds traces in the Mabinogion and other old Welsh literature, a man arose who had a turn for philosophizing and trying to think things out: how would he reason?"

• relationship: Within the range of Celtic legend the case is similar with Ddn, who figures on Welsh ground, as I have hinted, as mother of certain heroes of the oldest chapters of the Mabinogion (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Within the range of Celtic legend the case is similar with Ddn, who figures on Welsh ground, as I have hinted, as mother of certain heroes of the oldest chapters of the Mabinogion."

• attestation: To it probably belonged all the great family groups figuring in the Mabinogion and the corresponding class of literature in Irish: this would include the Danann-D6n group and the Lir-IL3rr group, toge (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "To it probably belonged all the great family groups figuring in the Mabinogion and the corresponding class of literature in Irish: this would include the Danann-D6n group and the Lir-IL3rr group, together with the families represented by Pwytt and Rhiannon, who were inseparable from the IL3rr group in Welsh, just as the Lir group was inseparable from the"

• attestation: Mabinogion gives the prehistoric remains (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "The geography of the Mabinogion gives the prehistoric remains"