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Then she went as far as ILonwen in Penfro and there dropped a grain of barley and a bee, and thenceforth ILonwen has been the best place for barley

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Then she went as far as ILonwen in Penfro and there dropped a grain of barley and a bee, and thenceforth ILonwen has been the best place for barley (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

And at ILonyon in Penfro she dropped a grain of barley and another of wheat: therefore the barley of ILonyon has passed into a proverb (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

attestation: Then she went as far as ILonwen in Penfro and there dropped a grain of barley and a bee, and thenceforth ILonwen has been the best place for barley (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

"Then she went as far as ILonwen in Penfro and there dropped a grain of barley and a bee, and thenceforth ILonwen has been the best place for barley."
attestation: And at ILonyon in Penfro she dropped a grain of barley and another of wheat: therefore the barley of ILonyon has passed into a proverb (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

"And at ILonyon in Penfro she dropped a grain of barley and another of wheat: therefore the barley of ILonyon has passed into a proverb."
attribution: The correct spelling of the name of the place in Penfro was probably ILonyon, but it is variously ^ven as ILonwen, ILonyon, and ILonion, not to mention the ILonnio ILonnwen of the later form of the Tr (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

"The correct spelling of the name of the place in Penfro was probably ILonyon, but it is variously ^ven as ILonwen, ILonyon, and ILonion, not to mention the ILonnio ILonnwen of the later form of the Triad: should this last prove to be based on any authority one might suggest ILonyon Henwen, so called after the sow, as the original."

The correct spelling of the name of the place in Penfro was probably ILonyon, but it is variously ^ven as ILonwen, ILonyon, and ILonion, not to mention the ILonnio ILonnwen of the later form of the Tr (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

"The correct spelling of the name of the place in Penfro was probably ILonyon, but it is variously ^ven as ILonwen, ILonyon, and ILonion, not to mention the ILonnio ILonnwen of the later form of the Triad: should this last prove to be based on any authority one might suggest ILonyon Henwen, so called after the sow, as the original."

Appears in: Beings, Entities in Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Tradition