Celtic Folklore Author:John Rhys Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the country folk began to grow weary of waiting for his return. In other words, most of our cave legends have combined together two sets of popular belief origin... more »ally distinct, the one referring to a hero gone to the world of the fairies and expected some day to return, and the other to a hero or god enjoying an enchanted sleep with his retinue all around him. In some of our legends, however, such as that of ILanciau Eryri, the process of combining the two sets of story has been left to this day incomplete. chapter{Section 4CHAPTER IX Place-name Stories The 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, lakes, rivers, fords, estuaries, islands, and so forth. . . . But its value to students of Irish folklore, romance (sometimes called history), and topography has long been recognized by competent authorities, such as Petrie, O'Donovan, and Mr. Alfred Nutt. Whitley Stokes. In the previous chapters some folklore has been produced in which we have swine figuring: see more especially that concerned with the Hwch Bu Gwta, pp. 224-6 above. Now I wish to bring before the reader certain other groups of swine legends hot vouched for by oral tradition so much as found in manuscripts more or less ancient. The first three to be mentioned occur in one of the Triadsl. I give the substance of it in the three best known versions, premising that the Triad is entitled that of the Three Stout Swineherds of the Isle of Prydain:— 1 They are produced here in their order as printed at the beginning of the second volume of the Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, and the series or versions are indicated as i, ii, iii. Version ii will be found printed in the third volume o...« less