ubt after the preceding that he was not the original hero of
the fable of "the man that slew his greyhound," which came to Wales
from Buddhistic India through channels which are perfectly traceable.
It was Edward Jones who first raised him to that proud position, and
William Spencer who securely installed him there, probably for all
time. The legend is now firmly established at Bedd Gellert. There is
said to be an ancient air, "Bedd Gelert," "as sung by the Ancient
Britons"; it is given in a pamphlet published at Carnarvon in the
"fifties," entitled _Gellert's Grave; or, Llewellyn's Rashness: a
Ballad, by the Hon. W. R. Spencer, to which is added that ancient Welsh
air, "Bedd Gelert," as sung by the Ancient Britons_. The air is from R.
Roberts' "Collection of Welsh Airs," but what connection it has with
the legend I have been unable to ascertain. This is probably another
case of adapting one tradition to another. It is almost impossible to
distinguish palaeozoic and cainozoic strata in oral tradition.
According to Murray's _Guide to N. Wales_, p. 125, the only authority
for the cairn now shown is that of the landlord of the Goat Inn, "who
felt compelled by the cravings of tourists to invent a grave." Some old
men at Bedd Gellert, Prof. Rhys informs me, are ready to testify that
they saw the cairn laid. They might almost have been present at the
birth of the legend, which, if my affiliation of it is correct, is not
yet quite 100 years old.

XXII. STORY OF IVAN.

_Source_.--Lluyd, _Archaeologia Britannia_, 1707, the first comparative
Celtic grammar and the finest piece of work in comparative philology
hitherto done in England, contains this tale as a specimen of Cornish
then still spoken in Cornwall. I have used the English version
contained in _Blackwood's Magazine_ as long ago as May 1818. I have
taken the third counsel from the Irish version, as the original is not
suited _virginibus puerisque_, though harmless enough in itself.

_Parallels_.--Lover has a tale, _The Three Advices_. It occurs also in
modern Cornwall _ap._ Hunt, _Drolls of West of England_, 344, "The
Tinner of Chyamor." Borrow, _Wild Wales_, 41, has a reference which
seems to imply that the story had crystallised into a Welsh proverb.
Curiously enough, it forms the chief episode of the so-called "Irish
Odyssey" ("_Merugud Uilix maiec Leirtis_"--"Wandering of Ulysses
M'Laertes"). It was derived, in all probability, from the _Gesta
Romanorum_, c.