The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . hi ;Rheidol, gad, er danrhydeddHeol i fun hael o fedd ;Ystwyth, ym mhwyth, gad im honDrais dew-ddyfr, dros dy ddwyfron. The coast journey that Dafydd had then tomake, on his way from Anglesey and round toLlanbadarn, and on to Glamorgan, was, becauseof the rivers he had to cross, a pretty devious had plenty of time, as he waited for a ferry atAberdovey, or for the tide to ebb on the Rheidol,to string some of those melodiously linked, fluidcouplets which are among the wonders of the artof rhymed verse. Before leaving Llanbadarn you can,
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . hi ;Rheidol, gad, er danrhydeddHeol i fun hael o fedd ;Ystwyth, ym mhwyth, gad im honDrais dew-ddyfr, dros dy ddwyfron. The coast journey that Dafydd had then tomake, on his way from Anglesey and round toLlanbadarn, and on to Glamorgan, was, becauseof the rivers he had to cross, a pretty devious had plenty of time, as he waited for a ferry atAberdovey, or for the tide to ebb on the Rheidol,to string some of those melodiously linked, fluidcouplets which are among the wonders of the artof rhymed verse. Before leaving Llanbadarn you can, if you havethe art, call up a far older church than that you seethere now, and with it the form of an older Geniusof Place than our other David of the Odes—, or Paternus. Gerald just speaks of himin the Baldwin Itinerary ; and helps us to use himas another link that connects the old tribal clericswith the Arthurian tales. Padarn went to Ireland,and brought back possibly some Irish ideas withhim. His cousin Samson had Arthurs faculty of. LLANBADARN TO BORTH 375 making stones fly like thistledown, if the story toldof the Celtic Crosses in the churchyard is was threshing with them on Pen-y-Dinas,when the head flew off one; flew indeed so farthat it dropt right into the churchyard Samson, with a very explicit Arthurianoath, threw the shaft after it. The stones arethere now: they may be seen, which proves howdependable tradition is. Moreover, one of them atleast bears the name of an Irish chief; and asPadarn had been to Ireland in quest of his father,the reality of the story is established. That fantasycame after is but natural; it does not destroy thematter of fact. Geralds account of the Breton knight who wentto Llanbadarn, and of the cleric with the spear hesaw there, is too striking to be left out of thereckoning. Even so, he ends with a naive admis-sion that he knows more than he thinks it politicto tell:— It happened that in the reign o
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