CHAPTER IX

Place-name Stories 498

The Triad of the Swineherds of the Isle of Prydain 499 The former importance of swine's flesh as food 501 The Triad clause about Coll's straying sow 503 Coll's wanderings arranged to explain place-names 508 The Kulhwch account of Arthur's hunt of Twrch Trwyth in Ireland 509 A parley with the boars 511 The hunt resumed in Pembrokeshire 512 The boars reaching the Loughor Valley 514 Their separation 515 One killed by the Men of Llydaw in Ystrad Yw 516 Ystrad Yw defined and its name explained 516 Twrch Trwyth escaping to Cornwall after an encounter in the estuary of the Severn 519 The comb, razor, and shears of Twrch Trwyth 519 The name Twrch Trwyth 521 Some of the names evidence of Goidelic speech 523 The story about Gwydion and his swine compared 525 Place-name explanations blurred or effaced 526 Enumeration of Arthur's losses in the hunt 529 The Men of Llydaw's identity and their Syfadon home 531 Further traces of Goidelic names 536 A Twrch Trwyth incident mentioned by Nennius 537 The place-name Carn Cabal discussed 538 Duplicate names with the Goidelic form preferred in Wales 541 The same phenomenon in the Mabinogion 543 The relation between the families of Llyr, Dôn, and Pwyll 548 The elemental associations of Llyr and Lir 549 Matthew Arnold's idea of Medieval Welsh story 551 Brân, the Tricephal, and the Letto-Slavic Triglaus 552 Summary remarks as to the Goidels in Wales 553