Iolo Manuscripts: A Selection of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, in Prose and Verse, from the Collection Made by the Late Edward Williams, Iolo Morganwg, for the Purpose of Forming a Continuation of the Myfyrian Archaiology; and Subsequently Proposed as Materials for a New History of WalesThomas Price |
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Page 626 - Brittany the system of the Round Table, which at home had become quite forgotten, and he restored it as it is, with regard to minstrels and bards, as it had been at Caerleon-upon-Usk, under the Emperor Arthur, in the time of the sovereignty of the race of the Cymry over the island of Britain and its adjacent islands.
Page 454 - Elffin, the son of Urien, being once fishing at sea in a skin coracle, an Irish pirate ship seized him and his coracle, and bore him away towards Ireland ; but while the pirates were at the height of their drunken mirth, Taliesin pushed his coracle to the sea, and got into it himself, with a shield in his hand which he found in the ship, and with which he rowed the coracle until it verged the land ; but, the waves breaking then in wild foam, he lost his hold on the shield, so that he had no alternative...
Page 465 - Grant, O God, Thy protection ; And in protection, strength ; And in strength, understanding ; And in understanding, knowledge; And in knowledge, the knowledge of justice ; And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it ; And in that love, the love of all existences ; And in the love of all existences, the love of God. God and all goodness.
Page 442 - ... cardinal point ; to the north of which another stone should be placed, so as to face the eye of the rising sun at the longest summer's day ; and to the south of it an additional one, pointing to the position of the rising sun at the shortest winter's day. These three are called station stones...
Page 624 - At every Gorsedd of the Chair of assembly, there should be published the Instructions of the Bards of the Island of Britain; that is to say, the records of the knowledge, and sciences, and of the arrangements, and rules, and privileges, and customs of the Bards. Also, publication should be made of the circuit records of Mabon, the...
Page 420 - The announcement of the Divine Name is the first event traditionally preserved ; and it occurred as follows : — " God, in vocalising His Name, said...
Page 354 - ... institutes for the welfare of his dominion ; and, so greatly was he beloved in his country, that when he went out to war, all chose to accompany him rather than remain at home. He was invariably victorious over his enemies; and made a law, that neither himself, nor any of his men, should exercise cruelty either to a vanquished foe, or any other living being ; and that no illegal deed should be perpetrated in tyranny, nor any law enacted from aversion or envy. All this caused such pervading love...
Page 519 - Meilin, and Meigir, the sons of Gwron, the son of Cunedda Wledig, went with Caswallawn Law Hir their cousin to expel the Gwyddelian Picts from the island of Anglesey, where they had fled from the sons of Cunedda, and had established themselves in that island ; and after furious fighting they drove the Gwyddelians out of Anglesey, and Caswallawn Law Hir slew Serigi Wyddel there, with his own hand. That Serigi was the prince of the Gwyddelian Picts, which had governed Gwynedd from the time of the Emperor...
Page 612 - ... there was no itch upon her, they went with her back to the chamber where the child was, and the first thing they saw was the child in his cradle, having twisted his hands under the...