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  • This booklet was published by the Great Western Railway Company in 1923 and is a reprint of a series of leaflets entitled 'The Line to Legend Land' which the company had previously published. The booklet brings together six Welsh and six Cornish legends, all of which are located in places served by the Great Western Railway. The six Welsh legends are shown on the following pages.
'Legend Land: Being a further collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by the Great Western Railway' (1923) [front cover, image 1 of 29]
  • Front cover of 'Y Greal Santaidd' (The Holy Grail) by E. Tegla Davies. This book was published by Hughes and Son, Wrexham, in 1922 and features illustrations by W. Mitford Davies.
E. Tegla Davies, 'Y Greal Santaidd' (1922) [front cover, image 1 of 8]
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'Morte d'Arthur: a poem' (1933) [frontispiece, image 1 of 23]
  • At the Bangor National Eisteddfod of 1902, the Eisteddfod Chair was awarded to T. Gwynn Jones (1871-1949) for his 'awdl' 'Ymadawiad Arthur' (The Departure of Arthur). 'Ymadawiad Arthur' is considered a landmark poem in the history of twentieth-century Welsh literature, and was published in its final form in 1934.
T. Gwynn Jones, 'Ymadawiad Arthur a Cherddi Ereill' (1910) [title page, image 1 of 21]
  • An engraving from a Henry Gastineau drawing of the dramatic rock pinnacle of Craig-y-Dinas or Dinas Rock near Ystradfellte, close to the border of Breconshire and Glamorganshire. There are a number of impressive waterfalls, caves and limestone rock formations in the district. Craig-y-Ddinas is one of the improbably large number of locations linked to the story of King Arthur.
Engraving of Craig-y-Dinas, near Ystradfellte, 1830