An Essay [By Sir J.D. Harding] on the Influence of Welsh Tradition Upon European Literature; Which Obtained the Prize Proposed by the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Society - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840. Excerpt: ... and in no other country except Wales. One very remarkable instance of the force of this persuasion is recorded in history. When Henry the Second was about to create his son Geoffrey Duke of Britanny, the Bretons insisted that he should be named Arthur, saying that perhaps he might be the prince whom they expected.--Throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, references to this Welsh and Breton superstition are frequent. % It soon indeed became proverbial. § Merlin and Morgana (Mor Gwyn) are clearly of Welsh origin, and both are well known in Britanny. Lastly, we have the uniform and explicit testimony Testimony of not only of Geoffrey of Monmouth, but of the earliest mancers. Alain de l'Isle, in the first half of the twelfth century (cited by De la Rue, "Bardes Armoricains," p. 19,) says, that any man would be stoned who said in Britanny that Arthur was dead. + William of Newbury, Lib. iii. c. 7, cited by De la Rue, Bardes Armoricains, p. 50.j t " Quibus si credideris, Expectare poteris Arturum cum Britonibus." Peter of Blois, Epist. 57. "Je fais, je crois, tele attente Come li Bretons font d'Artur." Walter of Soignies. "En tele attente m'estuet faire Come li Bretons font de leur Hoi." Rutebceuf, Lai de Brichemer. § The Trouveurs speak of a vain hope as "un espoir Breton." De la Rue, Bardes Armoricains, p. SI, 52. For instance, Merlin is supposed by the Bretons to be still enclosed in a tree, by the power of a greater enchanter than himself. No one knows the exact spot. See Southey's Preface to Morte Arthur. In a poem of the thirteenth century, called "Les privileges aux Bretons" certain families are mentioned as being of fairy descent, and amongst them "Jacques Brian de Compale', cousin de la Fee Morgaine." She is said to have been f...

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