Bedd Gelert - Gelert's Grave

Bedd Gelert - Welsh for "Gelert's Grave".

This grave is in the centre of a field by a river. An average looking, non-discript tree shelters a small boulder and two oddly shaped rocks as well as two plaques - one in english, one in welsh. They read:

In the 13th Century Llywelyn, Prince of North Wales, had a palace at Beddgelert. One day he went hunting without Gelert, his faithful hound who was unaccountably absent. On Llwelyn's return, the truant - stained and smeared with blood - joyfully sprang to meet his master. The Prince, alarmed, hastened to ifind his son and saw the infant's cot empty - the red clothes and floor covered with blood. The frantic father plunged his sword into the hound's side thinking it had killed his heir. The dog's dying yell was answered by a child's cry. Llwelyn searched and discovered his boy unharmed but near by lay the body of a mighty wolf which Gelert had slain. The Prince, filled with remorse, is said never to have smiled again. He buried Gelert here. The spot called BEDDGELERT.

Beddgelert became a smalll village that acts as a guardian of the grave site.