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See also:BEDDGELERT (" Gelert's See also:grave ") , a See also:village in See also:Carnarvonshire, See also:North See also:Wales, at the See also:foot of See also:Snowdon. The tradition of Gelert, See also:Llewelyn's See also:hound, being buried there is old in Wales; and See also:common to it and See also:India is the See also:legend of a See also:dog (or See also:ichneumon) saving a See also:child from a beast of See also:prey (or reptile), and being killed by the child's See also:father under the delusion that the See also:animal had slain the See also:infant. The See also:English poet, W. R. See also:Spencer, has versified the See also:tale of Llewelyn, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Wales, leaving Gelert and the baby See also:prince at See also:home, returning to find Gelert stained with the See also:blood of a See also:wolf, and killing the hound because he thought his child was slain. See also:Sir W. See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones, the Welsh philologist and linguist, gives the See also:Indian See also:equivalent (See also:Lord See also:Teignmouth's See also:Life of Jones, ed. Rev. S. C. Wilkes, editor's supplement). A Brahmin, leaving home, See also:left his daughter in See also:charge of an ichneumon, which he had See also:long cherished. A See also:black snake came up and was killed by the ichneumon, mistakenly killed, in its turn, by `the Brahmin on
his coming back. Another version is the See also:medieval See also:romance in The Seven See also:Wise Masters of See also:Rome. In the edition printed by Wynkyn de Worde it is told by " the first See also:master "—a See also:knight had one son, a greyhound and a See also:falcon; the knight went to a tourney, a snake attacked the son, the falcon roused the hound, which killed the See also:serpent, See also:lay down by the See also:cradle, and was killed by the knight, who discovered his See also:error, like Llewelyn, and similarly repented (See also:Villon Society, See also:British Museum reprint, by Gomme and See also:Wheatley).
On the See also:west of Beddgelert is Moel Hebog (See also:Bare-See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill of the falcon), a hiding-See also:place of See also:Owen See also:Glendower. Here, in 1784, was found a See also:brass See also:Roman See also:shield. Near is the famous Aberglaslyn Pass, dividing See also:Carnarvon and See also:Merioneth. In the centre is Cadair Rhys See also:Goch o'r Eryri, a See also:rock named as the See also:chair of Rhys Goch, a See also:bard contemporary with Glendower (died traditionally, 1420). Not far hence passed the Roman road from See also:Uriconium to Segontium (see CARNARVON).
End of Article: BEDDGELERT (" Gelert's grave ")
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