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"They are called, sir, the old and new bridge of Tai Hirion; at least we call them so." "And what do you call the ffrwd that runs beneath them?" "I believe, sir, it is called the river Twerin." "Do you know a lake far up there amidst the moors?" "I have seen it, sir; they call it Llyn Twerin." "Does the river Twerin flow from it?" "I believe it does, sir, but I do not know." "Is the lake deep?"
"You did not ask at the right quarter," said I; "the young man with the glazed hat could have told you as well as I." I inquired why the place where the mine was bore the name of Esgyrn Hirion or Long Bones. He told me that he did not know, but believed that the bones of a cawr or giant had been found there in ancient times. I asked him if the mine was deep. "Very deep," he replied.
Tired after a while with turning over the pages of the trashy "Cavalier" I returned the volumes to their place in the corner, blew out one candle, and taking the other in my hand marched off to bed. The Bill The Two Mountains Sheet of Water The Afanc-Crocodile The Afanc-Beaver Tai Hirion Kind Woman Arenig Vawr The Beam and Mote Bala. AFTER breakfasting I demanded my bill.
He tried to cut the throat of a butcher: didn't this look like wishing to put a rival out of the way? and that butcher an Englishman: didn't this look like wishing to pay back upon the Saxon what the Welsh call bradwriaeth y cyllyll hirion, the treachery of the long knives? So reasoned I to myself.
"These houses, sir," said she, "are called Tai Hirion Mignaint. Look over that door and you will see T. H. which letters stand for Tai Hirion. Mignaint is the name of the place where they stand." I looked, and upon a stone which formed the lintel of the middlemost door I read "T. H 1630." The words Tai Hirion it will be as well to say signify the long houses.
"I am glad he is no worse," said I, "for I really thought he was possessed with the evil one. My good person, can you tell me the name of this place?" "Esgyrn Hirion, sir," said he. "Esgyrn Hirion," said I to myself; "Esgyrn means 'bones, and Hirion means 'long. I am doubtless at the place which the old ostler called Long Bones.
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