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'If the livin' mullo does come you can't have a love-feast without company, you know, and I sha'n't be far off if you find you want me. She then took up her crwth, went round the llyn, and disappeared through the eastern cleft. In a few minutes I heard her crwth. But the air she played was not the air of the song she called the 'Welsh dukkerin' gillie' which I had heard by Beddgelert.
The moonlight on the cascade had exactly the same supernatural appearance that it has now falling upon these billows. Sinfi sings some of our Welsh songs, and accompanies herself on a peculiar obsolete Welsh instrument called a crwth, which she always carries with her. While we were listening to the cataract and what she called the Wynn wail, she began to sing the wild old air.
Shouldn't we go and see 'em? This exactly fitted in with the thoughts and projects that had suddenly come to me, and it was arranged that we should start for the encampment next morning. As we were leaving the bungalow the next day, I said to Sinfi, 'You are not taking your crwth. 'Crwth! we sha'n't want that. 'Your people are very fond of music, you know.
They were far more intense than those strange, sweet, wild, mesmeric throbs which I used to feel in Graylingham Wood, and which my ancestress, Fenella Stanley, seems also to have known, but they were akin to them. Then came the sound of Sinfi's crwth and song, and in the distance repetitions of it, as though the spirits of Snowdon were, in very truth, joining in a chorus.
There I stood again, listening to the wild notes of Sinfi's crwth in the distance, as the sun rose higher, pouring a radiance through the eastern gate of the gorge, and kindling the aerial vapours moving about the llyn till their iridescent sails suggested the wings of some enormous dragon-fly of every hue.
'What you told me about the spirits following the crwth was causing the strangest dream, I answered. 'I thought I saw Winnie's face reflected in the water, and I thought she was in awful distress. And all the time it was your face. 'That wur her livin' mullo, said Sinfi solemnly.
As early as 560 A. D., Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers, wrote to the Duke of Champagne: "Let the barbarians praise thee with the harp, Let the British crwth sing." This instrument, whose name signifies bulging box, was common in Britain, and was used in Wales until a comparatively recent period.
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