Mererid

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Mererid's cry from a city's height, Even to God is it directed: After pride comes a long pause (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Mererid's cry from a city's height, Even to God is it directed: After pride comes a long pause."

• attestation: Mererid's cry from a city's height tohid ar duuy dadoluch (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Mererid's cry from a city's height tohid ar duuy dadoluch."

• attestation: Mererid's cry o'ercomes me to-night, Nor can I readily prosper: After pride comes a fall (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Mererid's cry o'ercomes me to-night, Nor can I readily prosper: After pride comes a fall."

• attestation: Mererid's cry over strong wines, Bounteous God has wrought it: After excess comes privation (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Mererid's cry over strong wines, Bounteous God has wrought it: After excess comes privation."

• attestation: The names in these hnes present great difficulties: first comes that of Mererid, which is no other word than Margarita, ' a pearl,' borrowed; but what does it here mean (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "The names in these hnes present great difficulties: first comes that of Mererid, which is no other word than Margarita, ' a pearl,' borrowed; but what does it here mean?"