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Title: Welsh Folk-Lore
a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales

Author: Elias Owen

Release Date: December 12, 2006 [eBook #20096]

Language: English

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WELSH FOLK-LORE
a collection by the Rev. Elias Owen, M.A., F.S.A.

CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE i
PREFACE iii-vi
INDEX vii-xii
ESSAY 1-352
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS 353-359

WELSH FOLK-LORE
A COLLECTION OF THE
FOLK-TALES AND LEGENDS OF
NORTH WALES
BEING THE PRIZE ESSAY OF THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD
1887, BY THE
REV. ELIAS OWEN, M.A, F.S.A.

PREFACE

To this Essay on the "Folk-lore of North Wales," was awarded the first
prize at the Welsh National Eisteddfod, held in London, in 1887. The
prize consisted of a silver medal, and 20 pounds. The adjudicators were
Canon Silvan Evans, Professor Rhys, and Mr Egerton Phillimore, editor of
the _Cymmrodor_.

By an arrangement with the Eisteddfod Committee, the work became the
property of the publishers, Messrs. Woodall, Minshall, & Co., who, at the
request of the author, entrusted it to him for revision, and the present
Volume is the result of his labours.

Before undertaking the publishing of the work, it was necessary to obtain
a sufficient number of subscribers to secure the publishers from loss.
Upwards of two hundred ladies and gentlemen gave their names to the
author, and the work of publication was commenced. The names of the
subscribers appear at the end of the book, and the writer thanks them one
and all for their kind support. It is more than probable that the work
would never h