Celtic Folklore, Vol. 2: Welsh and Manx

Excerpt from Celtic Folklore, Vol. 2: Welsh and Manx
Une des legendes les plus repandues en Bretagne est celle d'une pretendue ville d'Is, qui, a une epoque inconnue, aurait ete engloutie par la mer. On montre, a divers endroits de la cote, l'emplacement de cette cite fabuleuse, et les pecheurs vous en font d'etranges recits. Les jours de temp6te, assurent-ils, on voit, dans les creux des vagues, le sommet des fleches de ses eglises; les jours de calme, on entend monter de l'abime le son de ses cloches, modulant l'hymne du jour. - Renan.
More than once in the last chapter was the subject of submersions and cataclysms brought before the reader, and it may be convenient to enumerate here the most remarkable cases, and to add one or two to their number, as well as to dwell at somewhat greater length on some instances which may be said to have found their way into Welsh literature. He has already been told of the outburst of the Glasfryn Lake (p.367) and Ffynnon Gywer (p.376), of ILyn ILech Owen (p.379) and the Crymlyn (p.191), also of the drowning of CantreV Gwaelod (p.383); not to mention that one of my informants had something to say (p.219) of the submergence of Caer Arianrhod, a rock now visible only at low water between Celynnog Fawr and Dinas Dinlle, on the coast of Arfon. But, to put it briefly, it is an ancient belief in the Principality that its lakes generally have swallowed up habitations of men, as in the case of ILyn Syfadon (p.73) and the Pool of Corwrion (p.57).
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