Wynne

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Wynne very kindly took me to see such of the ILanegryn people as were most likely to have somewhat to say about the fairies (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Wynne very kindly took me to see such of the ILanegryn people as were most likely to have somewhat to say about the fairies."

The Prose Merlin (English)

• attestation: Wynne is attested [p76] in CHAPTER VII: Merlin comes to the barons.: "Wynne, ffor god will shewe soche wr" (CHAPTER VII: Merlin comes to the barons.)

  "Y do yow to wite ye will gete youre-self the werse, and shull lese ther-on more than ye shull Wynne, ffor god will shewe soche wreche, that ye shull be full rebuked and foule shamed, the moste queynte of yow alle;"

• attestation: Wynne arrives or returns [p125]: therfore com to hym moo than u (CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter)

  "And therfore com to hym moo than uj m men for the grete bounte that thei herde of hym speke, whiche ne wolde neuer* haue hym seyn but for the high renouw that was of hym spoken, and that he was manly and wise and fall of largesse, and ther-of shewed wele his sone"

• attribution: Wynne is described as is grete loos (CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter)

  "and ther the kynge loot ne toke neuer thinge fro hem that thei dide Wynne, but frely yaf hem all, and ther thourgh encresed his grete loos that the peple hym yaf."