Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
Une des légendes les plus répandues en Bretagne est celle d'une prétendue ville d'Is, qui, à une époque inconnue, aurait été engloutie par la mer. On montre, à divers endroits de la côte, l'emplacement de cette cité fabuleuse, et les pécheurs vous en font d'étranges récits. Le...
ipsum. On the other hand, it rises to the grim dignity of a name for the dark, inexorable power which the whole universe is conceived to obey, a power before which the great and...
1. CHAPTER VIIUne des légendes les plus répandues en Bretagne est celle d'une prétendue ville d'Is, qui, à une époque inconnue, aurait été engloutie par la mer. On montre, à divers endroits d...
2. CHAPTER VIIIEkei mentoi mian einai nêson, en hê ton Kronon katheirchthai phrouroumenon hypo tou Briareô katheudonta; desmon gar autô ton hypnon memêchanêsthai, pollous de peri auton einai d...
12. iii. 20, which alludes to Arthur meeting in Nanhwynain with Medrawdor Medrod (Modred) and Idawc Corn Prydain, and to his being betrayed, for the benefit and security of the Saxons in the island. An earlier reference to the same story occurs in...
14. CHAPTER XITo look for consistency in barbaric philosophy is to disqualify ourselves for understanding it, and the theories of it which aim at symmetry are their own condemnation. Yet that...
9. iii. 101b:--The second was Coll son of Collfrewi who guarded DallwaranDallben's sow, that came burrowing as far as the Headland of Penwedic in Kernyw and then took to the sea; and she came to land at Aber Tarogi in Gwent Is-coed with Coll keeping...
10. ii. 360, appears to have been astonished to find that Carn Cavall,as she writes it, was no fabulous mound but an actual 'mountain in the district of Builth, to the south of Rhayader Gwy, and within sight of that town.' She went so far as to pe...
15. CHAPTER XIIThe method of philological mythology is thus discredited by the disputes of its adherents. The system may be called orthodox, but it is an orthodoxy which alters with every new...
17. ii. 15, called daughter of Beli, whom one can only have regarded as[242] It will be noticed that there is a discrepancy between the gutturals of these two words: tyngu, 'to swear' (O. Ir. tongu, 'I swear'), has ng--the Kulhwch spelling, tynghaf...
13. i. 440: 'and he who says that his spirit goes forth to meet a friend,Then if the soul was material, you may ask what its shape was; and even this I have a story which will answer: it comes from the same Modryb Mari who set her face against caws p...
11. CHAPTER XFor priests, with prayers and other godly gear, Have made the merry goblins disappear; And, where they played their merry pranks before, Have sprinkled holy water on the floor.-...
7. iii. 101a:--The first was Pryderi son of Pwyll of Pendaran in DyfedThe history of the pigs is given, so to say, in the Mabinogion. Pwyll had been able to strike up a friendship and even an alliance with Arawn king of Annwvyn [82] or Annwn, whic...
8. ii. 56c:--The third was Coll son of Kallureuy with the swine of DallwyrDallben in Dallwyr's Glen in Kernyw. Now one of the swine was with young and Henwen was her name; and it was foretold that the Isle of Prydain would be the worse for her litter;...
3. CHAPTER IXThe Dindsenchas is a collection of stories (senchasa), in Middle-Irish prose and verse, about the names of noteworthy places (dind) in Ireland--plains, mountains, ridges, cairns...
5. iii. 101c:--The third was Trystan son of Tallwch, who guarded theswine of March son of Meirchion while the swineherd had gone on a message to Essyllt to bid her appoint a meeting with Trystan. Now Arthur and Marchell and Cai and Bedwyr undert...
6. ii. 56a:--Pryderi son of Pwyll Head of Annwn with the swine ofPendaran of Dyfed his foster father. The swine were the seven brought away by Pwyll Head of Annwn and given by him to Pendaran of Dyfed his foster father; and the Glen of the Cu...
4. ii. 56b:--Drystan son of Tallwch with the swine of March ab Meirchionwhile the swineherd went on a message to Essyllt. Arthur and March and Cai and Bedwyr came all four to him, but obtained from Drystan not even as much as a single porker, whethe...