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Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends 456

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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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Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2)Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends 456

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