( 1) At Llyn Celyn in Gwynedd there is a small memorial to the village ) of Capel Celyn drowned by the dam in 1964 (Liverpudlians were ( thirsty). I was there this summer, and managed to read most of the ) memorial words inscribed on the wall of the small chapel through ( crazed plexiglas. There was short quote from Ben Bowen (the early ) 20th century Welsh poet, I presume) engraved in italics, and I think I ( butchered copying it. Can anyone supply the source of the quote and a ) translation. My best shot is: ( ) yn hwfn(?) swyn ei fynwes o ( Caf lonydd caf le i huno. ) ( something about " ?? charms his breast, Leave me (or I am?) alone, I ) have a place to sleep." Two lines from the englyn: Ymdawelaf, mae dwylo Duw ei hun Danaf ymhob cyffro; Yn nwfn swyn ei fynwes O Caf lonydd, caf le i huno. I am (shall be) calm, the hands of God himself are beneath me in every disturbance; in the depths of the blessing of His bosom I (shall) have peace, I (shall) have a place to sleep. by Ben Bowen, 187?-190?. It is the final stanza of his awdl `Y Diwigiwr' (The Reformer), from about 1900. Although he died well before the Great War (he was in his mid twenties and very ill at the turn of the century, I am not sure that he did not die on a journey to Africa to improve his health) it is commonly used on memorials to the fallen of the World Wars. I don't know whether I read too much into it, because it was presumably transcribed from the memorial in the drowned Methodist chapel, but the cyffro/llonydd in it always suggests the disturbance of the water and the exile to me. And I think some people refer to `holy water' as `dw+r swyn' (nid bod Wesle i wybod am bethau felly). It seems to have an extra meaning in this concrete apology for the destruction of the village. ( In addition, the lake ) took out a farm important to the Welsh Quakers, and probably some good ( whitewater, too. Hafod Fadog oedd safle mynwent y Crynwyr yng Nghapel Celyn. Daeth y fynwent i'r golwg yn sychdwr mawr 1984, ychydig yn unig ar hyd ffordd fawr glan ogleddol y gronfa oddiwrth yr argae, rhwng yr argae a'r capel coffa. Bu Cwm Tryweryn yn un o'r mannau yr ymfudodd nifer fawr o Grynwyr ohonynt i sefydlu'r wladfa ym Mhensylfania. The lake did not take out any white water; the regulation of the river has created much more predictable whitewater along the river Dee which is now a centre for competition. A, Roger... ( Isn't the village Tryweryn? Or is this another which suffered a ) similar fate? Tryweryn yw'r afon, y cwm, ac erbyn hyn y gronfa hefyd yn Saesneg, er gwaethaf mai Llyn Celyn yw'r enw yn Gymraeg. Capel Celyn oedd y pentref. g