Nelferch

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: ILyn y Forwyn, " the Damsel's Pool," is in the parish of Ystrad Tyfodwg: the inhabitants call it also ILyn Nelferch (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "'ILyn y Forwyn, " the Damsel's Pool," is in the parish of Ystrad Tyfodwg: the inhabitants call it also ILyn Nelferch."

• attestation: Nelferch in the whisper of the breeze on the top of the mountain hard by — many a time after that— as an old story {weSal) will have it (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "And some believed that they had heard the voice and cry of Nelferch in the whisper of the breeze on the top of the mountain hard by — many a time after that— as an old story {weSal) will have it.'"

• attribution: From this it will be seen that the fairy wife's name was supposed to have been Nelferch, and that the piece of water is called after her (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "From this it will be seen that the fairy wife's name was supposed to have been Nelferch, and that the piece of water is called after her."

• attestation: I have appealed to them on the question of the name Nelferch or Alfach, in the hope that their books would help to decide as to the old form of it (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "I have appealed to them on the question of the name Nelferch or Alfach, in the hope that their books would help to decide as to the old form of it."

• attestation: But he calls my attention to the fact, that perhaps the old name was neither Nelferch nor Alfach, as Elfarch, which would fit equally well, was once t (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "But he calls my attention to the fact, that perhaps the old name was neither Nelferch nor Alfach, as Elfarch, which would fit equally well, was once the name of a petty chieftain of the adjoining Hundred of Senghenyd, for which he refers me to Clark's Glamorgan Genealogies, p. 511."