The Doom of the Griffiths

The Doom of the Griffiths is by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. The writer says to have always been much interested by the traditions which are scattered up and down North Wales relating to Owen Glendower. The text says there was great joy among many of the inhabitants of the principality when the subject of the Welsh prize poem at Oxford, some fifteen or sixteen years ago, was announced to be Owain Glendwr.

The text says that in the eighth generation the faith in the prophecy was nearly destroyed by the marriage of the Griffiths of that day to a Miss Owen, who, unexpectedly, by the death of a brother, became an heiress. The text says that one gusty autumn day Ellis ferried them round Penthryn to Llandutrwyn, and there saw his little Nest become future Lady of Bodowen. A speaker tells Nest to put on her cloak and pack up what needs to go with her, saying that both she and her husband must be half way to Liverpool by to-morrow’s morn.