Owen Owens

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Owen, yn ei hadrod yn wahanol (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Owen, yn ei hadrod yn wahanol."

• attestation: Owen, relating it differently (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Owen, relating it differently."

• attestation: Owen and my mother when I was a lad, about fifty-seven years ago (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Owen and my mother when I was a lad, about fifty-seven years ago."

• attestation: Owen, of Cefn Meusyd, has already been alluded to (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Owen, of Cefn Meusyd, has already been alluded to."

• attestation: But after coming out again they were never able any more to find Owen's subterranean palace (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "But after coming out again they were never able any more to find Owen's subterranean palace."

• attestation: However that may have been, Owen was engaged in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, and when peace was made he went to serve in Lombardy; but when war between England and France broke out again in 1369, h (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "However that may have been, Owen was engaged in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, and when peace was made he went to serve in Lombardy; but when war between England and France broke out again in 1369, he returned to France."

• attestation: From the historian's narrative one finds that Owen had escaped when a boy to the court of Phihp VI of France, who received him with great favour and had him educated with his own nephews (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "From the historian's narrative one finds that Owen had escaped when a boy to the court of Phihp VI of France, who received him with great favour and had him educated with his own nephews."

• attestation: Nor was Owen the only Welshman in the king of France's service: (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "' Nor was Owen the only Welshman in the king of France's service:"

• attestation: Owen's chaplain, who on one occasion distinguished himself (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "there was Owen's chaplain, who on one occasion distinguished himself"

• attestation: In his declaration Owen calls himself ftui'if di Gala, which appmaches the Welsh spelling Eonm, more frequently Ywtin, modern Ywain (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "In his declaration Owen calls himself ftui'if di Gala, which appmaches the Welsh spelling Eonm, more frequently Ywtin, modern Ywain. except that all Uiese forma tended to be supplanted by Owain or Owrn. rbia last is, strictly speaking, the colloquial form, just as Hounl is the coUoquial fonn otJfyanl, and bouyd of iynyd, ' life.'"

• attestation: Now without being able to say why Owen and his analogues should become the heroes of cave legends contemplating a second advent, it is easy to point to circumstances which facilitated their doing so (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "Now without being able to say why Owen and his analogues should become the heroes of cave legends contemplating a second advent, it is easy to point to circumstances which facilitated their doing so."

• attestation: The result was that both died at the close of the conflict; and Owen, being asked where he wished to be buried, ordered an arrow to be shot into the air and his grave to be made where it fell (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "The result was that both died at the close of the conflict; and Owen, being asked where he wished to be buried, ordered an arrow to be shot into the air and his grave to be made where it fell."