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

Welsh Folk-Lore, by Elias Owen
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Title: Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Author: Elias Owen
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WELSH FOLK-LORE a collection by the Rev. Elias Owen, M.A., F.S.A.
CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE PREFACE INDEX ESSAY i iii-vi vii-xii 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.
p. i
PREFACE
p. iii
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. 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, ...