Show Notes
The final instalment in our popular mini-series Still Waters Run Deep. Today we hike through both Snowdonia and the Otherworld as we discover further tales of the Gwragedd Annwn, or, the ladies of the lakes.
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Soundtrack by Big Big Sky @big.big.sky | Excluding Many Points of Light by Judson Lee
| LINKS + SOURCES |
Myddfai Memories https://bit.ly/2WboSIN (with thanks to William Britton)
Davies, Jonathan Ceredig 'Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales' Ebook, P. 93 https://bit.ly/3mk5Fio
Further discussion of Nelferch from lake Llyn y Forwyn https://bit.ly/2Lq8zp9
Folklore of the Welsh Lakes overview https://bit.ly/3nJWLfm.
Sikes, Wirt (1880) ‘British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions’. Reprint, Glastonbury: The Lost Library, 2010 https://bit.ly/3lCV95U
Ralls-Maclead, Karen (2000) 'Music and the Celtic Otherworld'. Edinburgh: Polygon https://bit.ly/37n3Ugx
Stevenson, Peter ‘Welsh Folk Tales’ Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2017 https://bit.ly/3nSqR10
Soundtrack by Big Big Sky @big.big.sky | Excluding Many Points of Light by Judson Lee
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