Then shall fall Carmarthen town!”
(A Prophecy of Merlin).
According to another prophecy attributed to the same ancient wizard, Carmarthen is to sink when Llyn Eiddwen, a lake in Cardiganshire, dries up.
It is said that Merlin had predicted that a bull would go right to the top of the tower of St. Peter’s Church, Carmarthen, and that a calf fulfilled this prophecy.
My cousin, the Rev. Joseph Evans, the Rector of Jordanston, in Pembrokeshire, informed me a few years ago that one mile from the town of Fishguard, there is a farm called Tregroes, respecting which Merlin prophesied that it would be in the middle of the town some day. There are now signs that this ancient prophecy is likely to be fulfilled. September 4th, 1909, the Royal Mail Ship, Mauretania, the finest and fastest liner afloat, inaugurated the new Transatlantic Service from New York to Fishguard, so that there is a great future before the place as indicated by Merlin of old. It is also interesting to note that the captain of the Mauretania was a Welshman (Pritchard), and the first passenger to land was also a Welshman, named Mr. Jenkin Evans, brother to the Rector of Jordanston.
I have been informed that a relation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, lives at this very house respecting which Merlin had prophesied.
General Gwynne, a fine old gentleman I met a short time ago at the house of my genial friend, Col. Gwynne-Hughes, of Glancothy, wrote to me as follows respecting another remarkable prophecy of Merlin and its fulfilment:—
“Glancothy, Carmarthenshire, Oct. 12, 1909.
Dear Mr. Davies,—
I have heard you are writing a book on the Folk-Lore of Wales. Perhaps the following may be of use to you.