d to Wales, where I have discovered
it as the second apologue of "The Fables of Cattwg the Wise," in the
Iolo MS. published by the Welsh MS. Society, p.561, "The man who killed
his Greyhound." (These Fables, Mr. Nutt informs me, are a pseudonymous
production probably of the sixteenth century.) This concludes the
literary route of the Legend of Gellert from India to Wales: Buddhistic
_Vinaya Pitaka--Fables of Bidpai_;--Oriental _Sindibad_;--Occidental
_Seven Sages of Rome_;--"English" (Latin), _Gesta Romanorum_;--Welsh,
_Fables of Cattwg_.

_Remarks_.--We have still to connect the legend with Llewelyn and with
Bedd Gelert. But first it may be desirable to point out why it is
necessary to assume that the legend is a legend and not a fact. The
saving of an infant's life by a dog, and the mistaken slaughter of the
dog, are not such an improbable combination as to make it impossible
that the same event occurred in many places. But what is impossible, in
my opinion, is that such an event should have independently been used
in different places as the typical instance of, and warning against,
rash action. That the Gellert legend, before it was localised, was used
as a moral apologue in Wales is shown by the fact that it occurs among
the Fables of Cattwg, which are all of that character. It was also
utilised as a proverb: "_Yr wy'n edivaru cymmaint a'r Gwr a laddodd ei
Vilgi_" ("I repent as much as the man who slew his greyhound"). The
fable indeed, from this point of view, seems greatly to have attracted
the Welsh mind, perhaps as of especial value to a proverbially
impetuous temperament. Croker (_Fairy Legends of Ireland_, vol. iii. p.
165) points out several places where the legend seems to have been
localised in place-names--two places, called "Gwal y Vilast"
("Greyhound's Couch"), in Carmarthen and Glamorganshire; "Llech y Asp"
("Dog's Stone"), in Cardigan, and another place named in Welsh "Spring
of the Greyhound's Stone." Mr. Baring-Gould mentions that the legend is
told of an ordinary tombstone, with a knight and a greyhound, in
Abergavenny Church; while the Fable of Cattwg is told of a man in
Abergarwan. So widespread and well known was the legend that it was in
Richard III's time adopted as the national crest. In the Warwick Roll,
at the Herald's Office, after giving separate crests for England,
Scotland, and Ireland, that for Wales is given as figured in the
margin, and blazoned "on a coronet in a cradle or, a greyhou