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On inquiring of a boy the name of the works I was told that they were called the works of Level Vawr, or the Great Level, a mining establishment; but when I asked him the name of the hill with the singular peak, on the other side of the valley, he shook his head and said he did not know. Near the top of the hill I came to a village consisting of a few cottages and a shabby-looking church.
I can't stay any longer. As it is, I shall be late at Gutter Vawr." "Farewell, brother!" said Captain Bosvile; and, giving a cry, he cracked, his whip and set his horses in motion. "Won't you give us sixpence to drink?" cried Mrs Bosvile, with a rather shrill voice. "Hold your tongue, you she-dog," said Captain Bosvile. "Is that the way in which you take leave of an old friend?
"Because it is the king of the rivers in these parts." "Does the fountain come out of a rock?" "It does not; it comes out of a lake, a llyn." "Where is the llyn?" "Over that crag at the foot of Aran Vawr." "Is it a large lake?" "It is not; it is small." "Deep?" "Very." "Strange things in it?" "I believe there are strange things in it." His English now became broken. "Crocodiles?"
"Arenig Vawr," they replied, or something like it. Presently meeting four men I put the same question to the foremost, a stout, burly, intelligent-looking fellow, of about fifty. He gave me the same name as the women. I asked if anybody lived upon it. "No," said he, "too cold for man." "Fox?" said I. "No! too cold for fox." "Crow?" said I. "No, too cold for crow; crow would be starved upon it."
According to old unreliable legends, Marius, or Marcius, King of the British, grandson of Cymbeline, who began his reign A.D. 73, first surrounded Chester with a wall, a mysterious person who must be classed with Leon Gawr, or Vawr, a mighty strong giant who founded Chester, digging caverns in the rocks for habitations, and with the story of King Leir, who first made human habitations in the future city.
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.
And they brought thither earth from Rome that it might be more healthful for the emperor to sleep, and sit, and walk upon. After that the two other castles were made for her, which were Caerlleon and Caermarthen. And one day, the emperor went to hunt at Caermarthen, and he came so far as the top of Brevi Vawr, and there the emperor pitched his tent.
"'Hafren a Wy yn hyfryd eu wedd A Rheidol vawr ei anrhydedd. Good rhyme, sir, that. I wish you would put it into Saesneg." "I am afraid I shall make a poor hand of it," said I; "however, I will do my best: "'Oh pleasantly do glide along the Severn and the Wye; But Rheidol's rough, and yet he's held by all in honour high. "Very good rhyme that, sir! though not so good as the pennill Cymraeg.
In front of him rose the Glyder Vawr, its head shrouded in soft mist, through which the moonlight gleamed upon the chequered quarries of that enormous desolation, the dead bones of the eldest-born of time. A wild longing seized him; he would escape up thither; up into those clouds, up anywhere to be alone alone with his miserable self.
It will be dark, I am afraid, long before you get to Gutter Vawr. Good evening, David! I am glad to have seen you, for I have long wished to see a man from the north country. Good evening! you will find plenty of good ale at Gutter Vawr." I went on my way. The road led in a south-eastern direction gradually upward to very lofty regions.
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