it seems to have been often bestowed out of compliment upon genteel
and beautiful women; as we sometimes hear at this day _Ei Elen O--
his Elen_ when a man has a young and beautiful wife; and there is
hardly a love-song but the woman is called or compared in it to the
Trojan Helena, or Elen, as the Welsh write and pronounce the word.
The Welsh have had amongst them, time out of mind, a tradition that
the first colony of Bretons came to these islands from Troy after
the destruction of that city."



(10) THE STORY OF THE CROWS.

Source: Told me by an old man, who knew the defunct.



(11) ROBERTS AND THE FAIRIES.

Source: Told me by another old man, and I believe it to be genuine.

There is another story of the same kind, of a man who was searching
for treasure in Beaumaris Castle, and after he had told of his luck
a stone fell on him, so that he had to go away.



(12) THE QUEEN OF THE DELL.

Came from the same old pedlar as No. 1. A genuine story. The