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Robert Lleiaf Prophetic Englyn The Second Sight Duncan Campbell Nial's Saga Family of Nial Gunnar The Avenger. "AV i dir Mon, cr dwr Menai, Tros y traeth, ond aros trai." "I will go to the land of Mona, notwithstanding the water of the Menai, across the sand, without waiting for the ebb."
"Has Llangollen ale," said I, after tasting the second glass, "ever been sung in Welsh? is there no englyn upon it?" "No," said the old church clerk, "at any rate, that I am aware." "Well," said I, "I can't sing its praises in a Welsh englyn, but I think I can contrive to do so in an English quatrain, with the help of what you have told me. What do you think of this?
"The ale I shall find bad," said I; Chester ale had a villainous character in the time of old Sion Tudor, who made a first-rate englyn upon it, and it has scarcely improved since; "but I shall have a treat in the cheese, Cheshire cheese has always been reckoned excellent, and now that I am in the capital of the cheese country, of course I shall have some of the very prime."
Then the eagle came down until he was on the lowest branch of the tree, and thereupon this Englyn did Gwydion sing: "Oak that grows beneath the steep; Stately and majestic is its aspect! Shall I not speak it? That Llew will come to my lap?" And the eagle came down upon Gwydion's knee. And Gwydion struck him with his magic wand, so that he returned to his own form.
There's a boy here who will show you what an englyn is," and after I was introduced the kind youth did so with pleasure, while he sold candles to one customer, soap to another, cheese to another, and herring to another.
Edmund Prys, Vicar of Clynnog-Fawr, in a prefatory englyn to Ellis Wynne's translation of the "Holy Living" says that "in order to enrich his own, he had ventured upon the study of three other tongues." This fact, together with much that appears in the Visions, justifies the conclusion that his scholarly attainments were of no mean order.
He said that he had himself won the prize for the best englyn on a particular subject at an eisteddfod at which Sir Watkin Williams Wynn presided, and at which Heber, afterwards Bishop of Calcutta, was present, who appeared to understand Welsh well, and who took much interest in the proceedings of the meeting.
"I will show you his monument, sir," then taking me into a dusky pew he pointed to a small rude tablet against the church wall and said: "That is his monument, sir." The tablet bore the following inscription, and below it a rude englyn on death not worth transcribing: Coffadwriaeth am THOMAS JONES Diweddar o'r Draws Llwyn yn y Plwyf hwn: Bu farw Chwefror 6 fed 1830 Yn 92 oed. Aged 92.
And as surely as the couplet about the bridge argues great foresight in the man that wrote it, so surely does the englyn prove that its author must have been possessed of the faculty of second sight, as nobody without it could, in the middle of the seventeenth century, when the powers of steam were unknown, have written anything in which travelling by steam is so distinctly alluded to.
"'There you are wrong, said the man in grey; 'his name was not Sion Tudor, but Robert Vychan, in English, Little Bob. Sion Tudor wrote an englyn on the Skerries whirlpool in the Menai; but it was Little Bob who wrote the stanza in which the future bridge over the Menai is hinted at. "'You are right, said I, 'you are right. Well, I am glad that all song and learning are not dead in Ynis Fon.
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