Thursday, January 24, 2008

Some Blog Love for The Qween's Corgi

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The Corgi Legend
By Anne Biddlecombe
Would you know where corgis came from?
How they came to live with mortals?
On the mountains of the Welsh-land in its green and pleasant valleys,
Lived the peasant folk of old times,
Lived our fathers and grandfathers;
And they toiled and laboured greatly with their cattle and their
Ploughing, that their women might have plenty.
And their children journeyed daily with the kine upon the mountain,
Seeing that they did not wander,
Did not come to any mischief,
While their fathers ploughed the valley and their mothers made the cheeses.
'Til one day they found two puppies
Found them playing in a hollow, playing like a pair of fox-cubs.
Burnished gold their coat and colour,
Shining like a piece of satin -
Short and straight and thick their fore-legs, and their heads like a fox's
But their eyes were kind and gentle;
Long of body these dwarf-dogs and without a tail behind them.
Now the children stayed all day there,
And they learned to love the dwarf-dogs, shared their bread and water with them, took them home with them even.
Made a cosy basket for them,
Made them welcome in the kitchen,
Made them welcome in the homestead.
When the men came home at sunset, saw them lying in the basket,
Heard the tale the children told them, how they found them on the mountain, found them playing in the hollow -
They were filled with joy and wonder and said it was a fairy present,
Was a present from the wee folk, for their fathers told a legend
How the fairies kept some dwarf-dogs.
Called them Corgis - Fairy heelers:
Made them work the fairy cattle,
Made them pull the fairy coaches,Made them steeds for fairy riders,
Made them fairy children's playmates;
Kept them hidden in the mountains,
Kept them hidden in the mountains shadow,
Lest the eye of mortal see one.
Now the Corgis grew and prospered,
And the fairies' life was in them, in the lightness of their movement,
In the quickness of their turning,
In their badness and their goodness.
And they learnt to work for mortals,
Learnt to love their mortal masters,
Learnt to work their masters' cattle,
Learnt to play with mortal children.
Now in every vale and hamlet, in the valleys and the mountains,
From the little town of Tenby, by the Port of Milford Haven,
To St. David's Head and Fishguard, in the valley of the Cleddau,
On the mountains of Preselly,
Lives the Pembrokeshire Welsh Corgi,
Lives the Corgi with his master.
Should you doubt this ancient story,
Laugh and scoff and call it nonsense, look and see the saddle markings
where the fairy warriors rode them
(As they ride them still at midnight, on Midsummer's Eve at midnight,
When the mortals are all sleeping! )
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8 comments:

  1. my husband is *very* fond of commenting on how the queen probably runs around chasing corgis all around the palace all day.

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  2. @holly~I can't speak for QE but this qween does chase a corgi around her palace all day...it's the only exercise I get some days :)

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  3. my mil has a corgi. she rescued it from the pound...where she was told it was a golden lab puppy...but, no...it's a corgi! and...he is awesome. i would trade my retarded dog for this one, any day of the week. but, my mother in law...she doesn't like me...and she loves her dog...so, no game!!!
    xoxo

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  4. I love Corgi's...I just think they are the cutest!

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  5. I love Corgis. Something about their little short legs just gets me. haha :).

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  6. My in-laws have a Corgi with the same colorings as yours. His name's Elwood, he's 14 years old and he's a mean ol' bastard. But too cute. :)

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  7. I have a Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Alexa. She is featured in http://www.trainpetdog.com/Pembroke-Welsh-Corgi/about-pembroke-welsh-corgi.html. She's so chubby, long, heavy, and an extremely active little dog! The only problem is she always gets wary of strangers to the point of timidness.

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  8. Owning a Corgi priceless. They're very lovable and playful. The only thing we have to consider is fixing the mess they create after playing around with them.

    Cheers,
    Nimfa, Corgi Training
    expert

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