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GELLERT, or KILLHART

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 558 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GELLERT, or KILLHART , in Welsh traditional See also:history, the See also:dog of Llewellyn, See also:prince of See also:Wales. The dog, a greyhound, was See also:left to guard the See also:cradle in which the See also:infant See also:heir slept. A See also:wolf enters, and is about to attack the See also:child, when Gellert flies at him. In the struggle the cradle is upset and the infant falls underneath. Gellert kills the wolf, but when Prince Llewellyn arrives and See also:sees the empty cradle and See also:blood all around, he does not for the moment See also:notice the wolf, but thinks Gellert has killed the baby. He at once stabs him, but almost instantly finds his son safe under the cradle and realizes the dog's bravery. Gellert is supposed to have been buried near the See also:village of See also:Beddgelert (" See also:grave of Gellert "), See also:Snowdon, where his See also:tomb is still pointed out to visitors. The date of the incident is traditionally given as 1205. The incident has given rise to a Welsh See also:proverb, " I repent as much as the See also:man who slew his greyhound." The whole See also:story is, however, only the Welsh version of a See also:tale See also:long before current in See also:Europe, which.is traced to the See also:Indian Panchatantra and perhaps as far back as 200 B.C. See W. A. Clouston, Popular Tales and See also:Fictions (1887); D.

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Jenkins, Beddgelert, its Facts, Fairies and See also:Folklore (Portmadoc, 1899).

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