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National School The Young Preacher Pont Bettws Spanish Words Two Tongues, Two Faces The Elephant's Snout Llyn Cwellyn The Snowdon Ranger My House Castell y Cidwm Descent to Beth Gelert. IT might be about three o'clock in the afternoon when I left Caernarvon for Beth Gelert, distant about thirteen miles.
Yonder rock, which bulks out from it, down the lake yonder, and which you passed as you came along, is called Castell Cidwm, which means Wolf's rock or castle." "Did a wolf ever live there?" I demanded. "Perhaps so," said the man, "for I have heard say that there were wolves of old in Wales." "And what is the name of the beautiful hill yonder, before us across the water?"
"I shouldn't wonder," said I, "if in old times it was the stronghold of some robber-chieftain; cidwm in the old Welsh is frequently applied to a ferocious man. Castell Cidwm, I should think, rather ought to be translated the robber's castle than the wolf's rock. If I ever come into these parts again you and I will visit it together, and see what kind of place it is. Now farewell!
Then I would show your honour the fountain of the hopping creatures, where, where " "Were you ever at that Wolf's crag, that Castell y Cidwm?" said I. "Can't say I ever was, your honour. You see it lies so close by, just across the lake, that " "You thought you could see it any day, and so never went," said I. "Can you tell me whether there are any ruins upon it?" "I can't, your honour."
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