Sources1) For the story of the confrontation of Gwynn ap Nudd and the Christian hermit, Saint Collen:
Lives of the British Saints (Life of Saint Collen) S. Baring Gould, Pub. John Hodges, London 1875.
The Mabinogion by Lady Charlotte Guest (note to p.100), Pub. J.M. Dent & Co., 1906.
Glastonbury Tor: A Guide to the History and Legends by Nick Mann, Pub. Annenterprise, 1986.
Gwynn ap Nudd was called ‘the king of the fairies’ in the story of Saint Collen. Fairies in Celtic times and the Dark Ages were often the result of race memories of a people who had lived long, long before; a people powerful and magical, capable of magnificent transformations and illusions; associated with stone circles, with timelessness, with mazes and with earth mounds; a people whose knowledge of other realities
