title: A History of Wales
author:  John Davies 
description: Text: Welsh (translation)<br> Original Language: English
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  The Doom of the Griffiths
  
  
    
    
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  # The Doom of the Griffiths
  
  
  ### Elizabeth Gaskell
  
  
  
  
  
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  * Chapter I
  
  
  * Chapter II
  
  
  
  
  
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  ###  Chapter I
  
  
  
  
  
  I have always been much interested by the traditions which are
  
  
  scattered up and down North Wales relating to Owen Glendower (Owain
  
  
  Glendwr is the national spelling of the name), and I fully enter into
  
  
  the feeling which makes the Welsh peasant still look upon him as the
  
  
  hero of his country. There was great joy among many of the inhabitants
  
  
  of the principality, when the subject of the Welsh prize poem at
  
  
  Oxford, some fifteen or sixteen years ago, was announced to be 'Owain
  
  
  Glendwr.' It was the most proudly national subject that had 