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Encyclopedia Britannica



GELLERT, or KILLHART

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 558 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GELLERT, or KILLHART , in Welsh traditional history, the dog of Llewellyn, prince of Wales. The dog, a greyhound, was left to guard the cradle in which the infant
heir
  slept. A
wolf
  enters, and is about to attack the child, when Gellert flies at him. In the struggle the cradle is upset and the infant falls underneath. Gellert kills the
wolf
 , but when Prince Llewellyn arrives and
sees
  the empty cradle and blood all around, he does not for the moment notice the wolf, but thinks Gellert has killed the baby. He at once stabs him, but almost instantly finds his son safe under the cradle and realizes the dog's bravery. Gellert is supposed to have been buried near the
village
  of Beddgelert (" grave of Gellert "), Snowdon, where his
tomb
  is still pointed out to visitors. The date of the incident is traditionally given as 1205. The incident has given rise to a Welsh proverb, " I repent as much as the man who slew his greyhound." The whole story is, however, only the Welsh version of a tale
long
  before current in Europe, which.is traced to the Indian Panchatantra and perhaps as far back as 200 B.C.
See W. A. Clouston, Popular Tales and Fictions (1887); D. E. Jenkins, Beddgelert, its Facts, Fairies and Folklore (Portmadoc, 1899).


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