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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 111. 



before the battle of Cattraetli. The first of these 

 passages is — 



" Caeawe Cymnyvlat cyvlat Erwyt 



Rae ergit Cadfannan catvvyt." 

 " Caeog was a conflictor with destructive pikes. 



He was preserved from tlie blows of Mannan-fight." 

 CcBog, whom Davies converts into the adjective 

 " adorned," was the brother of Cynddyhin, Prince 

 of Powys (^Elegies of Llywarch Hen, p. 70.). On 

 the death of his brother in 577, he went to North 

 Briton ; he escaped from the blows of Mannan, 

 and afterwards fell at Cattraeth. Again, of a 

 chief named Twrch it is said : — 

 " He loved the battling of spears, 

 At Mannan, and before Aldud the renowned," 



" Emyt af crennyt y gat waewawr 

 Catvannan yr Aelut clodvawr." 



Again he says of another chief: — 



" Yn dieding 



Ac Adan Cadvannan cochre, 

 Veirch marcliawg goddrud y more." 



" Resistless 



As Aeddan of the blood-stained steeds of Mannan- 

 fight, 



He was an impetuous rider that morning." 

 Here we have three separate proofs of the fact, 

 that Cadvannan was anterior to the battle of 

 Catti'aeth : now when and where diil that take 

 place ? In the year 582, and probably at Clack- 

 mannan, on the Firth of Forth in Scotland. Here 

 is my authority (Annals of Ulster) : 



" DLXXXII. Bellum Manan, in quo victor erat 

 Aodhan Mar Gawran." 



The battle of Cattraeth must be tliat of 003, at 

 which Aeddan was also present. 



These few annotations from a new translation 

 of The Gododin now in MS., will, it is hoped, 

 satisfy your correspondent Gomer that I am jus- 

 tified in repeating the views of Davies. Should 

 he wish to get a correct text, and a judicious 

 version of The Gododin, he had better subscribe 

 to a translation by the Rev. J. Williams (author 

 of the Ecclesiastical Aniicjuities of the Cymry), 

 now about to issue from the Llandovery press, at 

 a very moderate price. Probert's translation is 

 very scarce. 



Is there no tradition of this battle at Sigston ? 



Thos. Stephens. 



FOLK LORE. 



Lincolnshire Folk Lore. — The following, illus- 

 trating as it does a supei'stitlon still very prevalent 

 in Lincolnshire, may interest some of your readers. 

 I transcribed it a few days ago in the British Mu- 

 seum from Holly's Lincolnshire Notes, vol. iii. 

 fol. 358.: — 



" The other I receaued from Mr. Thomas Codd, 

 minister of Laceby in Line, wch he gave under his owne 

 hand ; he himself being a native of ye place where this 

 same happened, and it was thus: 



" At Axholme, alias Haxey, in ye Isle, one Mr. 

 Edward Vicars (curate to Mr. Wm. Dalby, vicar), to- 

 gether with one Robert Hallywell a taylor, intending 

 on St. Marke's even at night to watch in ye church 

 porch to see who shoud die in ye yeare following 

 (to this purpose using divers ceremonies), they ad- 

 dressing themselues to the busines. Vicars (being then 

 in his cliamber) wished Hallywell to be going before 

 and he would psently follow him. Vicars fell asleep, 

 and Hallywell (attending his coming in ye church 

 porch) forthwith sees cerlaine shapes psnting them- 

 selves to his view, resemblances (as he thought) of 

 diners of his neighbours, who he did nominate; and all 

 of them dyed the yeare following ; and Vicars himselfe 

 (being asleep) his pliantonie was seen of him also, and 

 dyed with ye rest. This sight made Hallywell so 

 agast that he looks like a Ghoast ever since. The lord 

 Sheffield (hearing this relation) sent for Hallywell to 

 receiue account of it. The fellow fearing my Lord 

 would cause him to watch the church porch againe he 

 hid himseire in the Carrs till he was almost starued. The 

 number of those tliat died (whose phantasmes Hallywell 

 saw) was as I take it about fower score. 



" Tho. Cod, Rector Ecclie de Laceby." 



Edward Peacock. 



Bottesford Moors, Messingham, Kirton in Lindsey. 



iHtnor |2ntf^. 



Modern Greek Names of Places. — It is com- 

 monly stated in books of geography that the 

 modern name of Athens is Statines. In Hennin's 

 Mamicl dc Niimisniatique Ancienne it is stated to 

 be Satines or Atini ; and Mr. Akerman, in his 

 most excellent Numismatic Manual, makes the 

 same statement. We find it stated also univer- 

 sally that the modern name of Cos is Stanco ; and 

 this has been repeated in all maps and charts until 

 the recently published Admiralty Chart, No. VI. of 

 the Archipelago series, where it is called Cos. 



The origin of this and other similar blunders is 

 curious. Athens retains its plural termination, 

 and is always used with the article, at ABrivai. If 

 you ask a peasant walking from the Pirteus whither 

 he is going, he will answer you, Eis ras A6r}uas., but 

 will rapidly enunciate it as follows, VWAeTjcas, 

 whence Statines, lately reduced to Satines. 



I am surprised that Cos was not set down as 

 Stinco rather than Stanco, for if you hail a Coan 

 vessel, and ask whither it is bound, the KapafiovKvpi, 

 or skiff-master, would certainly reply aTr]v K^j, if 

 Cos were his destination. 



I find that both M. Hennin and IMr. Akerman 

 assert that Thebes is now called Stives. I con- 

 versed with a noble-looking youth on the ruins of 

 Eleusis, and asking him from what part of the 

 country he came, I shall not easily forget the 



