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Gron Gaer inspired the poet John Dyer (born 1700): you can read the poem here at Rutgers University website: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/grongar.html It also features in more modern verse: The Men They Couldn't Hang ~ Dogs' Eyes, Owl-Meat, Man Chop A furnace bellowed from the range To scorch the winter's chill And the spirit of Cyndylan Who hailed from Grongar hill True west he strode through Cilsane Ford Down by the water mill For a pint,then,at the Ship in Laugharne Two thousand years to kill He's got two thousand years to kill Dogs eyes, owl meat and man chop Half an ounce of shag And a pint of Buckley's Top Bible black,Captain cat Where time and tide stand still Like the ghosts of Aberglasney The mists on Grongar hill I don't know if the lyrics are right, I 'borrowed' them from this forum http://www.skincity.org.uk/index.php?topic=572.800 I do know that Aberglasney is a haunted house (hence 'the ghosts of Aberglasney'), as featured on 'Most Haunted'! - and is supposed to be cursed because it is the shadow of a hill where a huge battle took place in the 13th century (at Coed Llathen - not that they really know where that was? - could it be Grongar hill?) |
Posted by Rhiannon16th October 2007ce Edited 16th October 2007ce |
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The Art of John PiperJohn Piper's collage of the hill, from 1938. |
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