Welsh Journals

places in that vicinity, Of this, then, there is abso- lutely no doubt that the tale of Kulhwch and Olwen, in the Llyfr Cock o Hergest, is intimately connected with Pencaer, and it is highly probable that the old folk associated Pwllcrochan, Pwllarian, etc., with the cauldron of Diwrnach Wyddel, a well-known personage in their mythology. This, however, would not pre- Kig. 2. from hill opposite. vent its having been associated with Pwllcrochan in South Pembrokeshire, for there is a place of that name in the south as well as in the north of the county and possibly with other Pwllcrochans which have disap- peared from map and memory. But when the scribe of the Llyfr Cock wrote Ac yno y mae messur y peir" (" and there is the measure of the cauldron"), he must have had his mind's eye on some particular spot 3