Knightly Legends of Wales: Or, The Boy's Mabinogion : Being the Earliest Welsh Tales of King Arthur in the Famous Red Book of HergestSidney Lanier Scribner's, 1909 - 361 pages |
Other editions - View all
Knightly Legends of Wales: Or, the Boy's Mabinogion, Being the Earliest ... Sidney Lanier,Alfred Fredericks No preview available - 2016 |
Knightly Legends of Wales: Or, the Boy's Mabinogion: Being the Earliest ... Sidney Lanier No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
Addanc answered armor arose art thou Arthur's court asked bard behold Bendigeid Vran besought Blodeuwedd Branwen caldron Cantrevs castle cause chamber chieftain counsel countess daughter dogs dost dwarf Dyved earl easy Elphin emperor Enid feast forward Geraint gladly gold Gronw Gronw Pebyr Gwalchmai Gwawl Gwenhwyvar Gwyddno Gwydion hall head heard Heaven reward thee hoary-headed honor host household inquired Ireland Island of Britain journeyed Kilhwch King Arthur knight Kynon lady lance land Llew Llew Llaw Gyffes Lludd lord Mabinogion Maelgwn Gwynedd maiden Manawyddan Matholwch meat mighty never nobles Owain palace Peredur Pryderi Pwyll Rhiannon Rhonabwy saluted satin slain slay sleep slew stag struck sword Taliesin Teirnyon thereupon thou art thou didst thou hast thou mayest think thou shalt thou wilt told took Twrch Trwyth unto thee Verily Welsh wherefore wife wilt thou wood yellow yonder youth Yspaddaden Penkawr
Popular passages
Page 228 - Dyved, who had remained as a young page with these men, escaped into the wood," said they. Then they went on to Harlech, and there stopped to rest, and they provided meat and liquor, and sat down to eat and to drink. And there came three birds, and began singing unto them a certain song, and all the songs they had ever heard were unpleasant compared thereto ; and the birds seemed to them to be at a great distance from them over the sea, yet they appeared as distinct as if they were close by, and...
Page 202 - So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name of Flower-Aspect.
Page 286 - And early in the day they left the wood, and they came to an open country, with meadows on one hand, and mowers mowing the meadows. And there was a river before them, and the horses bent down, and drank the water. And they went up out of the river by a lofty steep; and there they met a slender stripling, with a satchel about his neck, and they saw that there was something in the satchel, but they knew not what it was. And he had a small blue pitcher in his hand, and a bowl on the mouth of the pitcher....
Page 29 - And the youth pricked forth upon a steed with head dappled gray, four winters old, firm of limb, with shell-formed hoofs, having a bridle of linked gold on his head, and upon him a saddle of costly gold. And in the youth's hand were two spears of silver, sharp...
Page 167 - to the mound, to sit there. And do thou," said he to the page who tended his horse, " saddle my horse well, and hasten with him to the road, and bring also my spurs with thee." And the youth did thus. And they went and sat upon the mound. And ere they had been there but a short time, they beheld the lady coming by the same road, and in the same manner, and at the same pace. "Young man," said Pwyll, "I see the lady coming: give me my horse.
Page 46 - ... It will be easy for me to compass this, although thou mayest think that it will not be easy.
Page 25 - Owain had not his usual strength, and the two youths pressed hard upon him. And the lion roared incessantly at seeing Owain in trouble ; and he burst through the wall until he found a way out, and rushed upon the young men, and instantly slew them. So Luned was saved from being burned. Then Owain returned with Luned to the dominions of the Countess of the Fountain. And when he went thence he took the Countess with him to Arthur's Court, and she was his wife as long as she lived. And...
Page 6 - what change hath befallen thee, that thou hast not come to visit me in my grief? It was wrong in thee, and I having made thee rich ; it was wrong in thee that thou didst not come to see me in my distress. That was wrong in thee." "Truly," said Luned, "I thought thy good sense was greater than I find it to be. Is it well for thee to mourn after that good man, or for anything else, that thou canst not have ? " "I declare to heaven," said the Countess, " that in the whole world there is not a man equal...
Page 49 - Though thou get this, there is yet that which thou wilt not get, — the two dun oxen of Gwlwlyd, both yoked together, to plough the wild land yonder stoutly.
Page 116 - Mourning; and on the mound there is a earn, and in the earn there is a serpent, and on the tail of the serpent there is a stone, and the virtues of the stone are such that whosoever should hold it in one hand, in the other he will have as much gold as he may desire. And in fighting with this serpent was it that I lost my eye. And the Black Oppressor am I called. And for this reason I am called the Black Oppressor, that there is not a single man around me whom I have not oppressed, and justice have...