Welsh Folk Tales of Coast and Sea

Peter Stevenson follows Môrwen, a Mesolithic Marsh Girl, along the Welsh Coast Path as she encounters stories shaped by the sea. The collection brings together Welsh coastal traditions including the lovesick mermaid of Llanina, the water horse of Oxwich Bay and the submerged land of Llys Helig.

Further tales introduce the pirate Leekie Porridge of Tenby, the Swan Girls of Barry Island, the cockle women of Penclawdd and the drunken mermaids of Cardigan Bay. Moving between myth, local legend and remembered history, the book links these accounts with the changing Welsh coastline, from ancient flooding to more recent social and environmental change.