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"I call that Tap Nyth yr Eryri." "Is not that the top nest of the eagles?" "I believe it is. Ha! I see you understand Welsh." "A little," said I. "Are there eagles there now?" "No, no eagle now." "Gone like avanc?" "Yes, gone like avanc, but not so long. My father see eagle on Tap Nyth, but my father never see avanc in de llyn." "How far to Dinas?" "About three mile." "Any thieves about?"
As the country was in a very wild state, much overgrown with forests in which bears and wolves wandered, and abounding with deep stagnant pools, which were the haunts of the avanc or crocodile, Hu forthwith set about clearing it of some of its horrors, and making it more fit to be the abiding place of civilised beings.
What are the three hundred ravens of Owen, and the nine sorceresses of Peredur, and the dogs of Annwn the Welsh Hades, and the birds of Rhiannon, whose song was so sweet that warriors remained spell-bound for eighty years together listening to them? What is the Avanc, the water-monster, of whom every lake-side in Wales, and her proverbial speech, and her music, to this day preserve the tradition?
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