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August 24, 2004
Gwragedd Annwn
The Encyclopaedia of the Celts is a fine resource. I found it while looker for pointers on how best to deal with the Gwragedd Annwn (gooer-geth ah-noon).
The best-known and the earliest of the stories about the Gwragen Annwn is the story of the lady of Llyn y Van Ffach, a small and beautiful lake near the Black Mountains. It happened in the 12th century that a widow with a farm at Blaensawde, near Mydffai, used to send her only son two miles up the valley to graze their cattle on the shores of Llyn y Van Ffach. One day, as he was eating his midday snack, he saw the most beautiful lady he had ever seen , sitting on the surface of the lake combing the curls of her long golden hair with the smooth water as her mirror. He was at once fathoms deep in love, and held out his hands with the bread in them, beseeching her to come to shore. She looked kindly at him, but said, 'Your bread is baked too hard' and plunged into the lake.
I have never heard it put quite that way before.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 24, 2004 08:33 AM
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