Physicians of Mydfai

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Rees of Tonn's version in the introduction to The Physicians of Mydfai'^, published by the Welsh Manuscript Society, at ILandovery, in 1861 (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Rees of Tonn's version in the introduction to The Physicians of Mydfai'^, published by the Welsh Manuscript Society, at ILandovery, in 1861."

• attestation: And so ends the story of the Physicians of Mydfai, which has been handed down from one generation to another, thus: — (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "' And so ends the story of the Physicians of Mydfai, which has been handed down from one generation to another, thus: —"

• attestation: So the fame of the Physicians of Mydfai was soon established over the whole country, and continued for centuries among their descendants (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "So the fame of the Physicians of Mydfai was soon established over the whole country, and continued for centuries among their descendants."

• attestation: The former gives another version, with much more interesting variations, which omit all reference, however, to the Physicians of Mydfai, and relate how a young farmer had heard of the Lake Maiden rowi (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "The former gives another version, with much more interesting variations, which omit all reference, however, to the Physicians of Mydfai, and relate how a young farmer had heard of the Lake Maiden rowing up and down the lake in a golden boat with a golden scull."

• comparison: However, the substance of it seems to be genuine, and to prove that there has been a Northwalian tradition which traced the medical art to a lake lady like the Egeria of the Physicians of Mydfai (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "However, the substance of it seems to be genuine, and to prove that there has been a Northwalian tradition which traced the medical art to a lake lady like the Egeria of the Physicians of Mydfai."