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Rhiw Gyferthwch

Then she proceeded to Rhiw Gyferthwch in Eryri and dropped a wolf-cub and an eagle-chick

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Then she proceeded to Rhiw Gyferthwch in Eryri and dropped a wolf-cub and an eagle-chick (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

And on Rhiw Gyferthwch in Arfon she dropped a wolf-cub and an eagle-chick (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

So with Rhiw Gyferthwch, the Hillside or Ascent of Cyferthwch,' where cyferthwch means 'pantings, pangs, labour. The name Maen Du, ' Black Rock,' is left to explain itself; and I am not sure that th (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 proceeded to Rhiw Gyferthwch in Eryri and dropped a wolf-cub and an eagle-chick (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

    "Then she proceeded to Rhiw Gyferthwch in Eryri and dropped a wolf-cub and an eagle-chick."

  • attestation: And on Rhiw Gyferthwch in Arfon she dropped a wolf-cub and an eagle-chick (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

    "And on Rhiw Gyferthwch in Arfon she dropped a wolf-cub and an eagle-chick."

  • attestation: So with Rhiw Gyferthwch, the Hillside or Ascent of Cyferthwch,' where cyferthwch means 'pantings, pangs, labour. The name Maen Du, ' Black Rock,' is left to explain itself; and I am not sure that th (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

    "So with Rhiw Gyferthwch, the Hillside or Ascent of Cyferthwch,' where cyferthwch means 'pantings, pangs, labour. The name Maen Du, ' Black Rock,' is left to explain itself; and I am not sure that the original story was not so put as also to explain Ronton, to wit, as a sort of plural of ttawn, ' full,' in reference, let us say, to the full ears of the barley grown there."