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Showing posts with label Legends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Legends. Show all posts
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Monday, May 27, 2019
Saint David - Dewi Sant
David or Dewi Sant is the patron saint of Wales. On March 1 every year Welsh children celebrate St David's day with the girls wearing national costume. Leeks and daffodils abound. In Pembrokshire, St David's Cathedral stands in a magical location where David is supposed to have lived his 6th Century Celtic monk's life. But what's known about him? Read:
St David
St David
Sunday, May 26, 2019
The Devil's Bridge - a further placename legend
The Devil's Bridge is another tale connected with a placename.
Gelert - another Welsh Legend
Gelert: The Martyred Hound is one of the best-known (and saddest) of Welsh tales.
Welsh Legends
Tales such as Why the Red Dragon is the Emblem of Wales attempt to explain the events of the post-Roman period.
Later legends show Breton influence and incorporate the elements of courtly love, Arthurian tales and pageantry. Other tales incorporate fairies and the supernatural and relate them to features of the landscape. For example the legend of he 'Meddygon Myddfai' relates that a farmer in the parish of Myddfai, Carmarthenshire, having bought some lambs in a neighbouring fair, led them to graze near Llyn y Fan Fach, on the Black Mountains. Whenever he visited these lambs three beautiful damsels appeared to him from the lake, on whose shores they often made excursions. Sometimes he pursued and tried to catch them, but always failed; the enchanting nymphs ran before him ... read more about the Meddygon Myddfai legend.
The Tale of Elidurus is another typical story of an earthling joining the fairy people dating from the twelfth-century.
Pergrin and the Mermaiden takes contact between man and mermaid as its theme.
Later legends show Breton influence and incorporate the elements of courtly love, Arthurian tales and pageantry. Other tales incorporate fairies and the supernatural and relate them to features of the landscape. For example the legend of he 'Meddygon Myddfai' relates that a farmer in the parish of Myddfai, Carmarthenshire, having bought some lambs in a neighbouring fair, led them to graze near Llyn y Fan Fach, on the Black Mountains. Whenever he visited these lambs three beautiful damsels appeared to him from the lake, on whose shores they often made excursions. Sometimes he pursued and tried to catch them, but always failed; the enchanting nymphs ran before him ... read more about the Meddygon Myddfai legend.
The Tale of Elidurus is another typical story of an earthling joining the fairy people dating from the twelfth-century.
Pergrin and the Mermaiden takes contact between man and mermaid as its theme.
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