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Myrdin Fard

To return to Myrdin Fard, he mentioned Ffynnon Cefn Leithfan, or the Well of the ILeithfan Ridge, on the eastern slope of Mynyd y Rhiw, in the parish of Bryncroes, in the west of ILeyn

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To return to Myrdin Fard, he mentioned Ffynnon Cefn Leithfan, or the Well of the ILeithfan Ridge, on the eastern slope of Mynyd y Rhiw, in the parish of Bryncroes, in the west of ILeyn (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

Myrdin Fard also told me that there used to be a well near Criccieth Church (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

One of these, the big well in the parish of ILanbedrog in ILeyn, as I learn from Myrdin Fard, required the devotee to kneel by it and avow his faith in it (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

The spot is not far from where Myrdin Fard lives (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

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  • attestation: To return to Myrdin Fard, he mentioned Ffynnon Cefn Leithfan, or the Well of the ILeithfan Ridge, on the eastern slope of Mynyd y Rhiw, in the parish of Bryncroes, in the west of ILeyn (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

    "To return to Myrdin Fard, he mentioned Ffynnon Cefn Leithfan, or the Well of the ILeithfan Ridge, on the eastern slope of Mynyd y Rhiw, in the parish of Bryncroes, in the west of ILeyn."

  • attestation: Myrdin Fard also told me that there used to be a well near Criccieth Church (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

    "Myrdin Fard also told me that there used to be a well near Criccieth Church."

  • attestation: One of these, the big well in the parish of ILanbedrog in ILeyn, as I learn from Myrdin Fard, required the devotee to kneel by it and avow his faith in it (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

    "One of these, the big well in the parish of ILanbedrog in ILeyn, as I learn from Myrdin Fard, required the devotee to kneel by it and avow his faith in it."

  • attestation: The spot is not far from where Myrdin Fard lives (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

    "The spot is not far from where Myrdin Fard lives; and he mentioned, that adjoining the well is a building which was probably intended for the person in charge"

  • attribution: One of them is in Myrdin Fard's neighbourhood, and I questioned him a good deal on the subject: it is called Ffynnon Grasst, or Grace's Well, and it occupies, according to him, a few square feet — he (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

    "One of them is in Myrdin Fard's neighbourhood, and I questioned him a good deal on the subject: it is called Ffynnon Grasst, or Grace's Well, and it occupies, according to him, a few square feet — he has measured it himself — of the south-east corner of the lake of Glasfryn Uchaf, in the parish of ILangybi."

  • attribution: So I wrote in 1893; but years after my conversation with Myrdin Fard, my attention was called to the fact that the Glasfryn family, of which the Rev (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

    "So I wrote in 1893; but years after my conversation with Myrdin Fard, my attention was called to the fact that the Glasfryn family, of which the Rev."