Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2)

by Sir John Rhys

yssyd ydan vor.

Gogwn eu heissor

paỽb yny oscord.

I know what (sort of) pigmy

There is beneath the sea.

I know their kind,

Each in his troop.

Also the following lines in the twelfth-century manuscript of the Black Book of Carmarthen: see Evans’ autotype facsimile, fo. 9^b:—

Ar gnẏuer pegor

ẏ ssit ẏ dan mor.