Note 11 — Chapter IX · Place-name Stories

i. 30c:—Coỻ son of Coỻfrewi11 who guarded Henwen12, Daỻweir Daỻben’s sow, which went burrowing as far as the Headland of Awstin in Kernyw and then took to the sea. It was at Aber Torogi in Gwent Is-coed that she came to land, with Coỻ keeping his grip on her bristles whatever way she went by sea or by land. Now in Maes Gwenith, ‘Wheat Field,’ in Gwent she dropped a grain of wheat and a bee, and thenceforth that has been the best place for wheat. Then she went as far as Ỻonwen in Penfro and there dropped a grain of barley and a bee, and thenceforth Ỻonwen has been the best place for barley. Then she proceeded to Rhiw Gyferthwch in Eryri and dropped a wolf-cub and an eagle-chick. These Coỻ gave away, the eagle to the Goidel Brynach from the North, and the wolf to Menwaed of Arỻechweđ, and they came to be known as Menwaed’s Wolf and Brynach’s Eagle. Then the sow went as far as the Maen Du at Ỻanfair in Arfon, and there she dropped a kitten, and that kitten Coỻ cast into the Menai: that came later to be known as Cath Paluc, ‘Palug’s Cat.’