Pais Dinogad's such a great nursery rhyme. It was found in the margins of the
Book of Aneurin, written around 1265AD, but is from much earlier - around 800AD.
Dinogad's speckled petticoat
was made of skins of speckled stoat:
whip whip whipalong
eight times we'll sing the song
When your father hunted the land
spear on shoulder club in hand
thus his speedy dogs he'd teach
Giff Gaff catch her catch her fetch!
In his coracle he'd slay
fish as a lion does its prey.
When your father went to the moor
he'd bring back heads of stag fawn boar
the speckled grouse's head from the mountain
fishes' heads from the falls of Oak Fountain.
Wherever your father struck with his spear
wild pig wild cat fox from his lair
unless it had wings it could never get clear.