Stranica 45 [45]
wall of London; but as
Harry has already told us
that it was built by King
Lud, he does not now
mention the circumstance
again.
The intelligent reader
will ask if there is any
backbone of truth in all
this Welsh tradition. I
venture to think there is
very little, 1f any. One
London worthy may be
identified with [Lles of
Harrys pages. I feel as
if I could believe in King
Lucius, if there was a
single line of contemporary
evidence about him, more
easily than I can in Lud
or Belin, or Coel ‘ gode¬
bog,’ or even Elen. His
legend may be found, like
a fly in amber, embedded
in one of Thackeray’s