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  4. A great cultural heritage of literature

folk-lore and music. Between the Anglo-Saxon

and Norman invasions the tales of Arthur and the 

Knights of the Round Table originated. They were

put into writing centuries later and circulated

all over Europe in the Red Book of Hergerst, the

Tale of Taliesin (5th century), the Mabinogion,
 
etc., --a curious mixture of fact and fancy of

castles found where neither stone nor building 

had been seen before, of heroes walking through

tree-tops and on grass without bending a blade, 

of the magic wand that turned people into deer, 

etc. THe Arthur tales were the mysticism of a 

people who would never admit they were conquered. 

The tales of the Tylwyth Teg (fairies) are of a

little, dwarfish folk who kept herds under the

waters of bottomless lakes, who dance on the 

green, steal in the market and use signs, never

speaking, etc. Superstition made its contribu-

tion to tradition, too, -- e.g. the corpse-candle

superstition that a person's candle is seen a 

few nights before his death, that ghosts of the