Mi fodda, dre Byrhonddu!”
(If I get no quiet in my place
I shall drown the town of Brecon).
so they had to give up draining the lake.
There are extant several versions of the Myddfai Legend. In the “Cambro Briton” Vol. II., pages 313–315, we have a version in which it is stated that the farmer used to go near the lake and see some lambs he had bought at a fair, and that wherever he so went three most beautiful maidens appeared to him from the lake. But whenever he tried to catch them they ran away into the lake, saying:—
“Cras dy fara,
Anhawdd ein dala.”
(For thee who eatest baked bread
It is difficult to catch us.)
But one day a piece of moist bread came floating ashore, which he ate, and the next day he had a chat with the maidens. After a little conversation he proposed marriage to one of them, to which she consented, provided he could distinguish her from her sisters the day after. Then the story goes on very similar to Mr. Rees’ version which I have already given in full.