CHAPTER VIII

Welsh Cave Legends 456

The question of classification 456

The fairy cave of the Arennig Fawr 456

The cave of Mynyd y Cnwc 457

Waring's version of Iolo's legend of Craig y Dinas 458

Craigfryn Hughes' Monmouthshire tale 462

The story of the cave occupied by Owen Lawgoch 464

How London Bridge came to figure in that story 466

Owen Lawgoch in Ogo'r Dinas 467

Dinas Emrys with the treasure hidden by Merlin 469

Snowdonian treasure reserved for the Goidel 470

Arthur's death on the side of Snowdon 473

The graves of Arthur and Rhita 474

Elis o'r Nant's story of Llanciau Eryri's cave 476

The top of Snowdon named after Rhita 477

Drystan's cairn 480

The hairy man's cave 481

Returning heroes for comparison with Arthur and

Owen Lawgoch 481

The baledwyr's Owen to return as Henry the Ninth 484

Owen a historical man = Froissart's Yvain de Gales 487

Froissart's account of him and the questions it

raises 488

Owen ousting Arthur as a cave-dweller 493

Arthur previously supplanting a divinity of the

class of the sleeping Cronus of Demetrius 493

Arthur's original sojourn located in Faery 495

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