Ystrad

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• comparison: Ystrad is the Welsh corresponding to Scotch strath, and it is nearly related to the English word strand (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "' Ystrad is the Welsh corresponding to Scotch strath, and it is nearly related to the English word strand."

• attestation: Just as I was engaged in collecting these stories in 1881, a correspondent sent me a copy of the Ystrad tale as published by the late bard and antiquary, the Rev (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Just as I was engaged in collecting these stories in 1881, a correspondent sent me a copy of the Ystrad tale as published by the late bard and antiquary, the Rev."

• attestation: The little man uttered terrible threats, but the heir of Ystrad would not yield, so an agreement was made between them, that the latter was to have the girl to wife until he touched her skin with iron (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "The little man uttered terrible threats, but the heir of Ystrad would not yield, so an agreement was made between them, that the latter was to have the girl to wife until he touched her skin with iron, and great was the joy both of the son and his parents in consequence."

• attestation: ILwydoS drwy ci dynerwch tu ag ati i gael gand'i aSaw dyfod yn forwyn ido yn yr Ystrad (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "ILwydoS drwy ci dynerwch tu ag ati i gael gand'i aSaw dyfod yn forwyn ido yn yr Ystrad."

• attestation: Ystrad,yn tte bod (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "hun idiyn wr—y celai fod yn feistres yr Ystrad,yn tte bod"

• attestation: Yr Ystrad, yr oed yn ffarmio hott ogled'-barth (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "ei hun — Yr Ystrad, yr oed yn ffarmio hott ogled'-barth"

• relationship: One fine evening in the month of June a brave, adventurous youth, the heir of Ystrad, went to the banks.of the Gw3n-fai, not far from where it leaves CweHyn Lake, and hid himself in the bushes near th (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "One fine evening in the month of June a brave, adventurous youth, the heir of Ystrad, went to the banks.of the Gw3n-fai, not far from where it leaves CweHyn Lake, and hid himself in the bushes near the spot where the folks of the Red Coats — the fairies— were wont to dance."

• attestation: There, while their enjoyment of the dance was at its height, he seized her in his arms and carried her away to his home at Ystrad (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "There, while their enjoyment of the dance was at its height, he seized her in his arms and carried her away to his home at Ystrad."

• attestation: By dint of tenderness he succeeded so far as to get her to consent to be his servant at Ystrad (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "By dint of tenderness he succeeded so far as to get her to consent to be his servant at Ystrad."

• attestation: he seized her in his arms and carried her away to his home at Ystrad. Bu (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "he seized her in his arms and carried her away to his home at Ystrad. But"

• attestation: By dint of tenderness he succeeded so far as to get her to consent to be his servant at Ystrad (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "and was ever anxious to keep her within his sight and in his possession. By dint of tenderness he succeeded so far as to get her to consent to be his servant at Ystrad. And such a servant she turned out to be! Why"

• attestation: Of these ILanbedr perpetuates the name of Ystrad Yw, although it is situated near the junction of the Greater and Lesser Grwyne and not in the Strath of the Yw, which Ystrad Yw means (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Of these ILanbedr perpetuates the name of Ystrad Yw, although it is situated near the junction of the Greater and Lesser Grwyne and not in the Strath of the Yw, which Ystrad Yw means."

• attestation: There is nothing, however, in this brook to account for the name of Ystra (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "There is nothing, however, in this brook to account for the name of Ystrad"

• attribution: A swine called ILwydawc is killed at a spot, not named, in Ystrad Yw or not far off* (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "A swine called ILwydawc is killed at a spot, not named, in Ystrad Yw or not far off*."