Excerpt from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions
In a certain sense Wales may be spoken of as the cradle of fairy legend. It is not now disputed that from the Welsh were borrowed many of the first subjects of composition in the literature of all the cultivated peoples of Europe.
In the ground it covers, while this volume deals especially with Wales, and still more especially with South Wales - where there appear to have been human dwellers long before North Wales was peopled - it also includes the border counties, notably Monmouthshire, which, though severed from Wales by Act of Parliament, is really very Welsh in all that relates to the past. In Monmouthshire is the decayed cathedral city of Caerleon, where, according to tradition, Arthur was crowned king in 508, and where he set up his most dazzling court, as told in the 'Morte d'Arthur.'
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