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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Sarn Gynfelyn









Photo of the day
Sarn Gynfelyn, an outcrop of boulders stretching miles out to sea at Wallog, near Aberystwyth.
(copyright Iestyn Hughes)

The Sarn is associated with the the legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod, a long lost village, drowned by the sea when the keeper of the sluice gates, one Seithennyn, got rather drunk, and failed in his duty. The king, Gwyddno Garan Hir escaped to higher ground via the Sarn...

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