Math

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Taking this as coming near the true explanation, it at once suggests itself, that Creuwyryon in the Mabinogi of Math ab Mathonwy is the same place, for creu or crau also meant an enclosure for animals (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Taking this as coming near the true explanation, it at once suggests itself, that Creuwyryon in the Mabinogi of Math ab Mathonwy is the same place, for creu or crau also meant an enclosure for animals, including swine."

• attestation: Math ab Mathonwy, of hearing any whisper whatsoever that met the wind: see the Oxford Mabinogion, p (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Math ab Mathonwy, of hearing any whisper whatsoever that met the wind: see the Oxford Mabinogion, p. 60, and Guest's Mabinogion, iii. 219; see also respectively pp. 94, 96, and pp. 308, 310, as to the same faculty belonging to the fairy people of the Corannians, and the strange precautions taken against them by the brothers ILud and ILevelys."

• attestation: One day in August of the same year, I arrived at Dinas Station, and walked down to ILandwrog in order to see Dinas Dinlte, and to ascertain what traditions still existed there respecting Caer Arianrho (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "One day in August of the same year, I arrived at Dinas Station, and walked down to ILandwrog in order to see Dinas Dinlte, and to ascertain what traditions still existed there respecting Caer Arianrhod, ILew]Lawgyffe.s, Dylan Eilton, and other names that figure in the Mabinogi of Math ah Mathonwy."

• attribution: Math could hardly be called a lady of rude virtue, and it is the idea in the (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Now the Arianrhod of the Mabinogi of Math could hardly be called a lady of rude virtue, and it is the idea in the"

• attestation: Compare the passage in the Mabinogi of Math, where it is said that the spear required for the slaying of ILew ILawgyffes had to be a whole year in the (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "Compare the passage in the Mabinogi of Math, where it is said that the spear required for the slaying of ILew ILawgyffes had to be a whole year in the making: the work was to be pursued only so long as one was engaged at the sacrifice on Sunday (aryr aberth du6 sul): see the Oxford Mabinogion, p. 76."

• attestation: Welsh Annwfn^ but it has been mostly superseded by the curtailed form AnntuHj which appears twice in the Mahincgi of Math (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Welsh Annwfn^ but it has been mostly superseded by the curtailed form AnntuHj which appears twice in the Mahincgi of Math."

• attestation: What I mean may best be illustrated by another swine story, namely, that which has already been referred to as occurring in the Mabinogi of Math (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "What I mean may best be illustrated by another swine story, namely, that which has already been referred to as occurring in the Mabinogi of Math."

• attestation: That is how a portion of the Math story is made to account for a series of place-names, and had the editor of the Kulhwch understood the play on the names of places in question in the story of Twrch T (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "That is how a portion of the Math story is made to account for a series of place-names, and had the editor of the Kulhwch understood the play on the names of places in question in the story of Twrch Trwyth, it might be expected that he would have given it prominence, as already suggested."

• attribution: Then the epithet hin^ * old or ancient/ reminds one of such instances as Math H^n and Gofynion H^n, to be noticed a little later in this chapter (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Then the epithet hin^ * old or ancient/ reminds one of such instances as Math H^n and Gofynion H^n, to be noticed a little later in this chapter."

• attribution: story of Math, whereas in the prose he appears to be called ILew (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "story of Math, whereas in the prose he appears to be called ILew."

• attribution: Similarly the two brothers, Gofannon and Amaethon, as they are called in the Mabmogi of Math and in the Kulhwch story, are found also called Gofynyon and Amathaon (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Similarly the two brothers, Gofannon and Amaethon, as they are called in the Mabmogi of Math and in the Kulhwch story, are found also called Gofynyon and Amathaon."

• comparison: the principal characters in the Mabinogi of Math, namely, the sons and daughters of DOn, are to be identified as a group with the Tuatha D6 Danann, ' Tribes of the Goddess Danu or Donu/ of Irish legen (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "the principal characters in the Mabinogi of Math, namely, the sons and daughters of DOn, are to be identified as a group with the Tuatha D6 Danann, ' Tribes of the Goddess Danu or Donu/ of Irish legend."

• attestation: This I am also prepared to accept in the sense that the Welsh form is a loan from a Goidelic one current some time or other in this country, and represented in Irish by Mathgamnai (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "This I am also prepared to accept in the sense that the Welsh form is a loan from a Goidelic one current some time or other in this country, and represented in Irish by Mathgamnai."

• attestation: Now Professor Zimmer fixes on that of Matkonwy, among other names, as probably the Welsh adaptation of some such an Irish name as the genitive Mathgumnai^f now anglicized Mahony (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Now Professor Zimmer fixes on that of Matkonwy, among other names, as probably the Welsh adaptation of some such an Irish name as the genitive Mathgumnai^f now anglicized Mahony."

• attestation: With Math the ancient, with Gofiannon (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "With Math the ancient, with Gofiannon."

• attribution: Math in a poem in the Red Book o/Hergest, where we meet with the line *:— (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "We have possibly a.trace of this feeling in the epithet hen, * old, ancient/ given to Math in a poem in the Red Book o/Hergest, where we meet with the line *:—"

• attestation: io8) was able to put together, we seem to have Gofannon, Math's relative, referred to under the designation of Goitynyon Hen, ' Gofynion the Ancient.' (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "teller of the Kulhwch [Mabhiogion, p. io8) was able to put together, we seem to have Gofannon, Math's relative, referred to under the designation of Goitynyon Hen, ' Gofynion the Ancient.'"

• attestation: Here the words seem to have the secondary meanings of profitable and unprofitable lands, respectively: compare a somewhat analogous use of gryntj 'str (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "Here the words seem to have the secondary meanings of profitable and unprofitable lands, respectively: compare a somewhat analogous use of gryntj 'strength, force/ in a passage relating to the mutilated horses of Matholwch — hyt mul oed rym a iXtit ar meirck, * so that no use was possible in the case of the horses,' meaning that they were of no use whatever, or that they had been done for: see the Oxford Mahmogumj p. 09, and Lady Charlotte Guest's, iii. 107, where the translation ' and rendered them useless ' is barely strong enough."

• relationship: Witness Math so (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "Witness Math son"