A Book of North Wales by Sabine Baring-Gould

Foundation of Bangor -- Madog the Fox -- The cathedral -- Owen Gwynedd -- Visit of Archbishop Baldwin -- "Lazy-tongs" -- Llanidan -- Shrine of S. Nidan -- Curious phenomenon of the filling stoup -- Bust of Edwen -- Llanfair -- Owen Tudor -- The fable of the Welsh pot-girl -- Carnarvon -- Elen the Road-maker -- Maximus -- Edward of Carnarvon -- Hugh the Fat and Hugh the Wolf -- Plas Newydd -- Cromlechs -- Destruction of prehistoric monuments -- The cult of the dead -- Llanddwyn -- Story of Dwynwen -- The holy well -- Curious offering in the porch -- Penrhyn quarries -- Names of slates -- Albert Davies -- The Hirlas Horn -- Lakes -- Marchlyn.

BANGOR, pleasantly situated in a green valley, near the sea, sheltered from every rough blast, communicating with Beaumaris by a steamer, or with a ferry across the Menai Straits at Garth, backed by the glorious heathery mountains of Carnedd Dafydd, Elidyr Fawr, and Carnedd Llewelyn, with easy access by the London and North Western line on the one side with the thronged watering-places on the north coast, and with the Snowdon district on the other, serves as a convenient and cheerful centre for excursions, and is preferable on the whole to Carnarvon. Bangor was founded by S. Deiniol in the sixth century. Deiniol was grandson of Pabo Post Prydain, whose monument is at Llanbabo, in Anglesey. His father was Dunawd, prince in North Britain, who, to his lasting disgrace, instead of uniting with his fellow-Britons against the Picts, attacked the sons of Urien, king of Rheged or Moray, and met with his deserts, for the Picts drove him from his principality, and he and his sons fled helter-skelter to Wales, where he entered the ecclesiastical estate, as the secular life was closed to him, and became Abbot of Bangor on the Dee, in Flintshire.