The Mythology of the British Islands / An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and Romance

by Charles Squire

[541]. Historia Britonum, Book III, Chaps. XI-XII.

[542]. See the Iolo MSS. The genealogies and families of the saints of the island of Britain. Copied by Iolo Morganwg in 1783 from the Long Book of Thomas Truman of Pantlliwydd in the parish of Llansanor in Glamorgan, p. 515, &c. Also see An Essay on the Welsh Saints by the Rev. Rice Rees, Sections IV and V.

[543]. Rhys: Arthurian Legend, pp. 261-262.

[544]. Iolo MSS., p. 474.

[545]. “The Welsh bards call Dwynwen the goddess, or saint of love and affection, as the poets designate Venus.” Iolo MSS.

[546]. Wirt Sikes: British Goblins, p. 350.

[547]. Iolo MSS., p. 523.

[548]. The Faerie Queene, Prologue to Book II.

[549]. Ibid., Book II, canto I, verse 6.

[550]. Published in Y Greal (London, 1805), and is to be found quoted in Rhys: Arthurian Legend, pp. 338, 339; also in Sikes: British Goblins, pp. 7-8.