Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 25, 2025
It is surprising how similar many of the Welsh rivers are in name: Taf, Tawey, Towey, Teivi, and Duffy differ but very little in sound. Taf and Teivi have both the same meaning, namely a tendency to spread out. The other names, though probably expressive of the properties or peculiarities of the streams to which they respectively belong, I know not how to translate.
MYSELF. Is the source of the Teivi far from here? FARMER. The head of the Teivi is about two miles from here high up in the hills. MYSELF. What kind of place is the head of the Teivi? FARMER. The head of the Teivi is a small lake about fifty yards long and twenty across. MYSELF. Where does the Teivi run to?
I passed by Aber Coed, a homestead near the bottom of a dingle down which runs a brook into the Teivi, which flows here close by the road; then by Aber Carvan, where another brook disembogues. Aber, as perhaps the reader already knows, is a disemboguement, and wherever a place commences with Aber there to a certainty does a river flow into the sea, or a brook or rivulet into a river.
Clever beast he was; made himself house of wood in middle of the river, with two doors, so that when hunter came upon him he might have good chance of escape. Hunter often after him, because he had skin good to make hat. FARMER. Ha, I wish I could catch that beast now in Teivi. MYSELF. Why so? Farmer. Because I want hat. Would make myself hat of his skin.
I asked the name of the river: "The Teivi, sir: the Teivi." "The name of the bridge?" "Pony y Rhyd Fendigaid the Bridge of the Blessed Ford, sir." I crossed the Bridge of the Blessed Ford, and presently leaving the main road, I turned to the east by a dung-hill, up a narrow lane parallel with the river.
A brook flowing from the hills murmurs through it and at length finds its way into the Teivi. An ancient church stands on a little rising ground just below the hills; multitudes of rooks inhabit its steeple and fill throughout the day the air with their cawing.
The scene was solemn and impressive: on the north side of the river a large bulky hill looked down upon the ruins and the church, and on the south side, some way behind the farm-house, was another which did the same. Rugged mountains formed the background of the valley to the east, down from which came murmuring the fleet but shallow Teivi.
King Henry the Sixth, fully aware of his importance in his own country, bestowed upon him the commission of the peace, an honour at that time seldom vouchsafed to a Welshman, and the captaincy of Kilgarran, a strong royal castle situated on the southern bank of the Teivi a few miles above Cardigan.
MYSELF. Oh, you could not make yourself a hat even if you had the skin. FARMER. Why not? Shot coney in Bunk Pen Banedd; made myself cap of his skin. So why not make hat of skin of broadtail, should I catch him in Teivi? MYSELF. How far is it to Tregaron? FARMER. -'Tis ten miles from here, and eight from the Rhyd Fendigaid. MYSELF. Must I go back to Rhyd Fendigaid to get to Tregaron?
Word Of The Day
Others Looking