Peredur

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• relationship: the little ram was no other than a hare, which, poor creature, was dying of fright and fatigue., I need scarcely point out the similarity between this and the story of Peredur, who, as a boy, drove ho (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "the little ram was no other than a hare, which, poor creature, was dying of fright and fatigue., I need scarcely point out the similarity between this and the story of Peredur, who, as a boy, drove home two hinds with his mother's goats from the forest: he owned to having had some trouble with the goats that had so long run wild as to have lost their horns, a circumstance which had greatly impressed him^ To return to the fenodyree, I am not sure that there were more than one in Man— I have never heard him spoken of in the plural; but two localities at least are assigned to him, namely, a farm called Ballachrink, in Colby, in the south, and a farm called Lanjaghan, in the parish of Conchan, near Douglas."

• attestation: It is true that the story of Peredur represents that knight cutting an afanc's head off, but so much the worse for the compiler of that romance, as we have doubtless in the afanc some kind of a deathl (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "It is true that the story of Peredur represents that knight cutting an afanc's head off, but so much the worse for the compiler of that romance, as we have doubtless in the afanc some kind of a deathless being."

• attestation: However, the description which the Peredur story gives ^ of him is interesting: he lives in a cave at the door of which is a stone pillar: he sees everybody that comes without anybody seeing him; and (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "However, the description which the Peredur story gives ^ of him is interesting: he lives in a cave at the door of which is a stone pillar: he sees everybody that comes without anybody seeing him; and from behind the pillar he kills all comers with a poisoned spear."

• attestation: Lastly, here also might be mentioned the incident in the story of Peredur or Perceval, which relates how to that knight, when he was in the middle of a forest much distressed for the want of a horse, (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "Lastly, here also might be mentioned the incident in the story of Peredur or Perceval, which relates how to that knight, when he was in the middle of a forest much distressed for the want of a horse, a lady brought a fine steed as black as a blackberry."

• attestation: When, however, Peredur made his rustic appearance there, they hailed him loudly as the chief of warriors and the flower of knighthood, which brought on them the wrath of Cai, on whom they were eventua (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "When, however, Peredur made his rustic appearance there, they hailed him loudly as the chief of warriors and the flower of knighthood, which brought on them the wrath of Cai, on whom they were eventually avenged by Peredur."

• attestation: Peredur's lake afanc may have been a dwarf; but whether that Was so or not, it is remarkable thai the weapon which the afanc hatldled was a litchwatai or flake-spear, that is, a missile tipped with st (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Peredur's lake afanc may have been a dwarf; but whether that Was so or not, it is remarkable thai the weapon which the afanc hatldled was a litchwatai or flake-spear, that is, a missile tipped with stone."