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Welsh
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Examples
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Humphrey Llwyd confesseth, a Cambro-Briton himself, in his elegant epistle to Abraham Ortelius, they live most on white meats: in
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_Dafydd ab Gwilym_, who is said to have flourished in the fourteenth century, says, in one of his poems, as given in the _Cambro-Briton_, vol. ii., p. 313, alluding to these physicians: --
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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_The Cambro-Briton version of the Myddvai Legend_.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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The editor of the _Cambro-Briton_ remarks that the superstitions recorded, if authentic, "are not very creditable to the intelligence of our lower classes in Wales; but it is some satisfaction to think that none of them are of recent date."
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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Rhiwallon and his sons, we are told by the writer in the _Cambro-Briton_, wrote about 1230 A.D., but the editor of that publication speaks of a manuscript written by these physicians about the year 1300.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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The volume of the _Cambro-Briton_ now referred to was published in 1821 and apparently the writer, who calls himself _Siencyn ab Tydvil_, communicates an unwritten tradition afloat in Carmarthenshire, for he does not tell us whence he obtained the story.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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The writer had evidently not seen the version of this story in the _Cambro-Briton_, nor had he read Williams's tale of a like occurrence, recorded in _Observations on the Snowdon
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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_Cambro-Briton_ has one, but the best is that recorded by Professor Rhys, in the _Cymmrodor_, vol. iv., p. 163, in his _Welsh Fairy Tales_.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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There is in _The Cambro-Briton_, vol. ii., p. 271, another and more natural description of _Cwn Annwn_.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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Allusion is made to this freak of the Fairies in the _Cambro-Briton_, vol. i., p. 348: --
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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