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Elias Owen, Welsh Folk-Lore, 1896

Owen, Elias. Welsh Folk-Lore: A Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales, Being the Prize Essay of the National Eisteddfod, 1887. Oswestry and Wrexham: Woodall, Minshall, and Co., 1896. This book is a comprehensive compilation of North Welsh folk tales and legends, written by the Rev. Elias Owen. The text was awarded first prize at the 1887 National Eisteddfod. It explores the folklore traditions of the region, focusing on fairy tales, superstitions, and historical customs. Owen, drawing on his personal experiences from his travels as a Diocesan Inspector of Schools, and with input from the local clergy and elderly inhabitants, records a wealth of local stories. The work offers insight into the cultural heritage of Wales, particularly the supernatural beliefs prevalent in the 19th century.

John Roby, Source File: Traditions of Lancashire and Other Relevant Material for Folklore

It is true that all these pages can be found online, but the development of Roby's Traditions is complicated and my failure to understand this has bedevilled my work on Lancashire folklore over the years. So they are gathered together in one place. You'll find here: A) The four volumes of Traditions that were published in 1829 (2) and 1831 (2). B) Some later prefaces and introductions to subsequent editions C) The biography from the posthumous Remains published by Roby’s widow and three ‘traditional’ stories that were included there, but not in Roby's early works.

Trefor Meredith Owen MA, FSA, Former Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1926–2015

Folk Life, 2016

Trefor M. Owen, who died in February 2015 at the age of eighty-eight, was a key figure in the development of folk-life studies in the British Isles. Less of a public persona than either his complex predecessor Iorwerth C. Peate or his extrovert successor J. Geraint Jenkins (like him, both Presidents of the Society for Folk Life Studies), nevertheless as Curator he brought the Welsh Folk Museum to academic pre-eminence and himself made

Edward Williams, the Bard of Glamorgan; or Iolo Morganwg

Edward Williams, the Bard of Glamorgan; or Iolo Morganwg http://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/publication/Recollections-and-Anecdotes-of-Edward-Williams Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams, the Bard of Glamorgan; or Iolo Morganwg, B. B. D. by: Iolo Morganwg (Author) Elijah Waring (Editor) Publisher Location: London Publisher Name: Charles Gilpin Publication Date: 1850

Illtud [St Illtud, Illtyd] (fl. 5th–6th cent.), abbot of Llantwit Major

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004

Illtud [St Illtud, Illtyd] (fl. 5th-6th cent.), abbot of Llantwit Major, the monastery in the south of Glamorgan of which he was also patron, was famous during the middle ages (and perhaps in his own lifetime) for his erudition and wisdom. His school at Llantwit is said to have attracted to him such renowned disciples as saints David, Gildas, Samson of Dol, Paul (Paulus Aurelianus), and Leonorius of St Lunaire. Analysis of ecclesiastical dedications to Illtud shows that, next to St Cadog, he was the most important saint whose cult was based in southeast Wales. Information relating to his life comes almost entirely from later hagiographical sources and is therefore of dubious historical reliability. His own extant Latin life, probably composed at Llantwit no earlier than c.1140 and preserved in BL, Cotton MS Vespasian A.xiv, is extremely derivative; and the earlier traditions recorded in two Breton saints' lives-that of St Samson (now thought to have been composed c.750), chapters 7-12, and that of St Paul of St Pol-de-Léon (written by Wrmonoc in 884), chapters 2-5-are perhaps more useful up to a point.

Elis Gruffydd and Welsh identity in the sixteenth century

2018

In 1552, Welsh soldier and chronicler Elis Gruffydd (c.1490-c.1552) completed a 2500-folio manuscript, which is little known and rarely studied. Its obscurity belies its importance. This document can tell us much about Welsh opposition to Tudor policies in the British Isles, an often-overlooked subject; his experience as Europe transitioned from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern era; and writing as a form of resistance, a subject receiving little scholarly attention prior to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Llanuwchllyn - Llanwmawddwy, an archaeological survey

The Llanuwchllyn-Llanymawddwy archaeological survey was undertaken in 2012 and was grant-aided by the RCAHM Wales Uplands Archaeology Initiative. It covers 32 square kilometres of enclosed moorland in Snowdonia National Park, in which 308 archaeological sites were recorded, seven of which had been recorded previously in the National Monuments Record. Although only one Bronze-Age cairn was found on high ground, other possible Bronze Age ritual sites were located on lower ground in the valleys of the Twrch and Groes rivers, and include a possible ring cairn, burial cist and two standing stones. No evidence was found of the Roman road between Caer Gai and Caersws Roman forts that probably crosses here. Settlement and agriculture of the medieval and post-medieval periods dominates the archaeology and is most concentrated on the northern flank of Aran Benllyn, between Cwm Cynllwyd to the east and the Dee valley to the north west. Neighbouring lowland settlement is well documented in the medieval period, by which time the uplands were exploited as summer pastures, or hafodydd. One permanent farmstead was found, but other domestic sites are isolated small huts used as summer dwellings, or hafotai. The character of the landscape is influenced strongly by enclosures of the valley slopes in the post-medieval period, where ffridd place names are most common. By the eighteenth century sheep dominated upland farming, although there is a large cattle enclosure of probable medieval date. Until the mid nineteenth century the higher ground was grazed as common land. Two field banks were identified that might have formed the boundaries of sheepwalks, but the moorland was then otherwise unenclosed. The sale of common land is marked in the landscape by lines of boundary stones that separate estates in Merioneth from those in neighbouring Montgomeryshire, some of which are dated 1852. Nineteenth-century slate quarries were found on the northern slopes of Aran Benllyn. Aran Quarry incorporates both surface and underground working, and retains characteristic features such as workmen’s shelters, known as gwaliau, large tips retained by makeshift walls, and smaller trial quarries. Other quarries were small and must have served only local needs. Peat has been dug from the higher ground, and continued to be so until the twentieth century. A large number of peat cuttings were found in part of the survey area, the presence of which was indicated by sunken tracks by which means peat was transported down from the hill. The report concludes with recommendations for future recording and research.

Oxford DNB Article: Owen, Josiah (1711?-1755)

His first ministerial settlement was at Bridgnorth, Shropshire (after 1729), which he left in 1735. He then ministered for short periods at Walsall and Stone, Staffordshire. About this time he is supposed to have entered into a controversy with the bishop of Coventry and ?-1729