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Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque

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Cap. X. xi.] DE NUGIS CURIALIUM. 77<br />

<strong>De</strong> apparitionibus fantasticis.^ xi.<br />

Aliud non miraculum sed portentum nobis Walenses referunt.<br />

Wastinum Wastiniauc secus stagnum Brekeniauc,t quod in cir-<br />

cuitu duo miliaria tenet, mansisse aiunt et vidisse per tres claras a<br />

luna noctes choreas foeminarum in campo avenaj suee, et secutum<br />

eum eas fuisse donee aqua stagni submergerentur, unam tamen<br />

quarta vice retinuisse. Narrabat etiam ille raptor illius quod eas<br />

noctibus singulis post submersionem earum raurmurantes audisset<br />

sub aqua et dicentes, " Si hoc fecisset, unam de nobis cepisset,"<br />

et se ab ipsis edoctum quomodo hsec adepta sit, quse et consensit<br />

et nupsit ei, et prima verba sua hsec ad virum suum, " Libens tibi<br />

serviam, et tota obedientiaj devotione usque in diem ilium pro-<br />

silire volens ad clamores ultra Lenem me freno tuo percusseris/'<br />

Est autem Lenem aqua vicina stagno. Quod et factum est ; post<br />

plurimee prolis susceptionem ab eo freno percussa est, et in reditu<br />

suo inventam eam fugientem cum prole, insecutus est, et vix<br />

unum ex filiis suis arripuit, nomine Triunnem Nagelauc. Hie cum<br />

esset magnanimus arctae possessionis terminos exiit. Regem ergo<br />

de Heulard, i. e. Norwallise, sibi dominum elegit ; ibi diu moratus<br />

jactantiam domini sui non tulit, qui cum sedisset in coena, fami-<br />

liam multam nimis et bonam viribus et armis respiciens, superbe<br />

intulit, "Non est provincia vel regnum sub coelo unde mihi<br />

facile non sit praedam educere, et sine bello reverti : quis<br />

enim tanto mihi tanteeque familiae meae resistere possit ? quis<br />

vero absque negotio a facie nostra fugiat?" Triunem hsec audiens,<br />

probitatem et improbitatem suorum compatriotarum pensans,<br />

* The popular legends contained in the married wood nymphs. Among the most<br />

following chapters are extremely interest- remarkable examples may be pointed out<br />

ing, not only because they are valuable Matthew Paris's legend of King Offa, and f<br />

documents illustrative of the mythology the French romance of Melusine.<br />

of the Teutonic and Celtic tribes, but be- f Brecknock in Wales. Brechein is<br />

cause some of them relate to persons of said to have been the first king of this re-<br />

historical celebrity. The three first legends gion. I have found no traces of this le-<br />

preserved by Walter <strong>Mapes</strong> belong to a gend in the writers on Welsh antiquities ;<br />

class which was very extensive among the it is curiously connected with ancient tu-<br />

Teutonic people, that of mortals who had muli in the sequel.

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