Pergrin

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attribution: but this one, this time at any rate, talked, it is said, very good Welsh; for when she was in despair in Pergrin's custody, weeping copiously, and with her tresses all dishevelled, she called (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "We know not what language is used by sea maidens... but this one, this time at any rate, talked, it is said, very good Welsh; for when she was in despair in Pergrin's custody, weeping copiously, and with her tresses all dishevelled, she called"

• attestation: out: ' Pergrin, if thou wilt let me go, I will give thee three shouts in the time of thy greatest need (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "out: ' Pergrin, if thou wilt let me go, I will give thee three shouts in the time of thy greatest need.'"

• attestation: Pergrin! take up thy nets, take up thy nets, take up thy nets (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Pergrin! take up thy nets, take up thy nets, take up thy nets!"

• attestation: Pergrin and his companion instantly obeyed the message, and drew their nets in with great haste (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "' Pergrin and his companion instantly obeyed the message, and drew their nets in with great haste."

• attestation: He also had a mermaid tale, Hke that of Pergrin from Dyfed, p. 163 (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "He also had a mermaid tale, Hke that of Pergrin from Dyfed, p. 163."