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