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Syfadon

From this passage it would seem that the Syfadon story contemplated the afanc being taken away from the lake in a cart or waggon drawn by oxen; but whether driven by Hu, or by whom, one is not told

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From this passage it would seem that the Syfadon story contemplated the afanc being taken away from the lake in a cart or waggon drawn by oxen; but whether driven by Hu, or by whom, one is not told (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

related in Welsh concerning ILynclys and Syfadon; but I reserve it with these and others of the same sort for chapter vii (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • attestation: From this passage it would seem that the Syfadon story contemplated the afanc being taken away from the lake in a cart or waggon drawn by oxen; but whether driven by Hu, or by whom, one is not told (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

    "From this passage it would seem that the Syfadon story contemplated the afanc being taken away from the lake in a cart or waggon drawn by oxen; but whether driven by Hu, or by whom, one is not told."

  • attestation: related in Welsh concerning ILynclys and Syfadon; but I reserve it with these and others of the same sort for chapter vii (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

    "related in Welsh concerning ILynclys and Syfadon; but I reserve it with these and others of the same sort for chapter vii."

  • attribution: In the case of the Syfadon legend the time of the vengeance is the ninth cenhedlaeth or generation, which must be regarded as probably a careless way of indicating the generation when the collaterals (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

    "In the case of the Syfadon legend the time of the vengeance is the ninth cenhedlaeth or generation, which must be regarded as probably a careless way of indicating the generation when the collaterals are separated by nine ancestors, that is to say the sixth from the father of the family."