CHAPTER VIII

Welsh Cave Legends 456

The question of classification 456 The fairy cave of the Arennig Fawr 456 The cave of Mynyd y Cnwc 457 Waring's version of Iolo's legend of Craig y Dinas 458 Craigfryn Hughes' Monmouthshire tale 462 The story of the cave occupied by Owen Lawgoch 464 How London Bridge came to figure in that story 466 Owen Lawgoch in Ogo'r Dinas 467 Dinas Emrys with the treasure hidden by Merlin 469 Snowdonian treasure reserved for the Goidel 470 Arthur's death on the side of Snowdon 473 The graves of Arthur and Rhita 474 Elis o'r Nant's story of Llanciau Eryri's cave 476 The top of Snowdon named after Rhita 477 Drystan's cairn 480 The hairy man's cave 481 Returning heroes for comparison with Arthur and Owen Lawgoch 481 The baledwyr's Owen to return as Henry the Ninth 484 Owen a historical man = Froissart's Yvain de Gales 487 Froissart's account of him and the questions it raises 488 Owen ousting Arthur as a cave-dweller 493 Arthur previously supplanting a divinity of the class of the sleeping Cronus of Demetrius 493 Arthur's original sojourn located in Faery 495