CHAPTER IX

Place-name Stories 498

The Triad of the Swineherds of the Isle of Prydain 499

The former importance of swine's flesh as food 501

The Triad clause about Coll's straying sow 503

Coll's wanderings arranged to explain place-names 508

The Kulhwch account of Arthur's hunt of Twrch Trwyth

in Ireland 509

A parley with the boars 511

The hunt resumed in Pembrokeshire 512

The boars reaching the Loughor Valley 514

Their separation 515

One killed by the Men of Llydaw in Ystrad Yw 516

Ystrad Yw defined and its name explained 516

Twrch Trwyth escaping to Cornwall after an

encounter in the estuary of the Severn 519

The comb, razor, and shears of Twrch Trwyth 519

The name Twrch Trwyth 521

Some of the names evidence of Goidelic speech 523

The story about Gwydion and his swine compared 525

Place-name explanations blurred or effaced 526

Enumeration of Arthur's losses in the hunt 529

The Men of Llydaw's identity and their Syfadon home 531

Further traces of Goidelic names 536

A Twrch Trwyth incident mentioned by Nennius 537

The place-name Carn Cabal discussed 538

Duplicate names with the Goidelic form preferred

in Wales 541

The same phenomenon in the Mabinogion 543

The relation between the families of Llyr, Dôn,

and Pwyll 548

The elemental associations of Llyr and Lir 549

Matthew Arnold's idea of Medieval Welsh story 551

Brân, the Tricephal, and the Letto-Slavic Triglaus 552

Summary remarks as to the Goidels in Wales 553

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