_Source._--Curtin, _Myths, &c., of Ireland_, 78 _seq._
_Parallels._--The latter half resembles the second part of the Sea-Maiden (No. xvii.), which see. The earlier portion is a Cinderella tale (on which see the late Mr. Ralston's article in _Nineteenth Century_, Nov., 1879, and Mr. Lang's treatment in his Perrault). Miss Roalfe Cox is about to publish for the Folk-Lore Society a whole volume of variants of the Cinderella group of stories, which are remarkably well represented in these isles, nearly a dozen different versions being known in England, Ireland, and Scotland.
_Source._--Kennedy, _Fireside Stories of Ireland_, 74-80, "Shan an Omadhan and his Master."
_Parallels._--It occurs also in Campbell, No. xlv., "Mac a Rusgaich." It is a European droll, the wide occurrence of which--"the loss of temper bet" I should call it--is bibliographised by M. Cosquin, _l. c._ ii., 50 (_cf._ notes on No. vi.).
_Source._--I have paraphrased the well-known poem of Hon. W. R. Spencer, "Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound," first printed privately as a broadsheet in 1800 when it was composed ("August 11, 1800, Dolymalynllyn" is the colophon). It was published in Spencer's _Poems_, 1811, pp. 78-86. These dates, it will be seen, are of importance. Spencer states in a note: "The story of this ballad is traditionary in a village at the foot of Snowdon where Llewellyn the Great had a house. The Greyhound named Gêlert was given him by his father-in-law, King John, in the year 1205, and the place to this day is called Beth-Gêlert, or the grave of Gêlert." As a matter of fact, no trace of the tradition in connection with Bedd Gellert can be found before Spencer's time. It is not mentioned in Leland's _Itinerary_, ed. Hearne, v., p. 37 ("Beth Kellarth"), in Pennant's _Tour_ (1770), ii., 176, or in Bingley's _Tour in Wales_ (1800). Borrow in his _Wild Wales_, p. 146, gives the legend, but does not profess to derive it from local tradition.