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So he set men and dogs upon him, and thereupon he started off and went to Mynydd Amanw. And there one of his young pigs was killed. Then they set upon him life for life, and Twrch Llawin was slain, and then there was slain another of the swine, Gwys was his name. After that he went on to Dyffryn Amanw, and there Banw and Bennwig were killed.

Seeing a woman of an interesting countenance seated at the door of a cottage I pointed to the hill towards the north, and speaking the Welsh language, inquired its name. "That hill, sir," said she, "is called Moel Wyn." Now Moel Wyn signifies the white, bare hill. "And how do you call those two hills towards the east?" "We call one, sir, Mynydd Mawr, the other Mynydd Bach."

Start for Anglesey The Post-Master Asking Questions Mynydd Lydiart Mr Pritchard Way to Llanfair. WHEN I started from Bangor, to visit the birth-place of Gronwy Owen, I by no means saw my way clearly before me.

To the north-west at some distance is Mynydd Turvey, a sharp pointed blue mountain. To the south-east, on the right, much nearer, are two beautiful green hills, the lowest prettily wooded, and having its top a fair white mansion called Penhow Castle, which belongs to a family of the name of Cave. Thence to Llanvaches, a pretty little village.

But he was the rival of the exiled princes of the House of Cunedda, and he found it difficult to bend Snowdon and the Vale of Towy to his will. Two of the exiles met him, probably near some of the cairns in the valley of the Teivy; and there, in the battle of Mynydd Carn, fiercely fought through the dusk into a moonlight night in 1079, Trahaiarn fell.

Griffith lost the day, and again became a sea-rover. He sailed to Dyved, and there he met Rees, the King of Deheubarth, who also was of the line of Cunedda, and had been driven from his land by the Normans. The two chiefs joined, and they crushed Trahaiarn at Mynydd Carn. Then they turned against the Normans. Rees soon fell in battle, and left two children, Nest and Griffith.

Close to it on the south- west is a very high headland called in Welsh Pen Caer Gybi, or the head of Cybi's city, and in English Holy Head. On the north, across the bay, is another mountain of equal altitude, which if I am not mistaken bears in Welsh the name of Mynydd Llanfair, or Saint Mary's Mount.

"Mynydd Lydiart!" said the urchin, tossing up a handful of the hot dust into the air, part of which in descending fell into my eyes. I shortly afterwards passed by a handsome lodge. I then saw groves, mountain Lydiart forming a noble background. "Who owns this wood?" said I in Welsh to two men who were limbing a felled tree by the road-side. "Lord Vivian," answered one, touching his hat.

Now Mynydd Mawr signifies the great mountain and Mynydd Bach the little one. "Do any people live in those hills?" "The men who work the quarries, sir, live in those hills. They and their wives and their children. No other people." "Have you any English?" "I have not, sir. I proceeded on my journey.

After ascending the hill and passing over its top, we went down its western side and soon came to a black, frightful bog between two hills. Beyond the bog and at some distance to the west of the two hills rose a brown mountain, not abruptly, but gradually, and looking more like what the Welsh call a rhiw, or slope, than a mynydd, or mountain. "That, sir," said my guide, "is the grand Plynlimmon."