Literary Associations
According to legend the maiden Sabrina, is said to have drowned at Dolforwyn, and become goddess of the River Severn (Dolforwyn means which "maiden's meadow" may allude to this myth). John Milton in his masque Comus presented at Ludlow Castle in 1645 before the Earl of Bridgewater invokes the goddess Sabrina:
- Sabrina fair
- Listen where thou art sitting
- Under the glassie, cool, transluscent wave,
- In twisted braids of lillies knitting
- The loose train of thy amber-dripping hair,
- Listen for dear honour's sake
- Goddess of the silver lake."
Bernard Cornwell, as part of The Warlord Chronicles, uses Dolforwyn in his 1995 book The Winter King.
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