BEDDGELERT (Gelert's Grave), village, Carnarvonshire, North Wales. Pop. (19 21) approx. 1,213. The narrow pass of Aberglaslyn leads into the Snowdon country, and at the foot of that mountain the Colwyn, from the north-west, and the Glaslyn (vale of Gwynant), from the north-east, meet in a picturesque hollow in which the village has grown. Beddgelert has many associations with the princes of North Wales of the early middle ages and is linked with the well-known legend of the faithful hound, Gelert, who protected the prince's sleeping son by killing a wolf, but was killed by the father, who returned to find bloodstains and fancied the dog had slain his child. There are Welsh variants of this tale, which is also well known in other forms in the folklore of other lands. The finding of a Roman shield, and some direct evidences have led to the view that the Roman trackway from Segontium to Uriconium passed near the village, and Dinas Emrys, an important early native fortification, is situated on a hill about a mile up the valley. The Welsh High land (light) railway now runs from Dinas Junction, south of Car narvon, up the Gwyrfai valley and down that of the Colwyn past Beddgelert to Portmadoc. The village is famed as a tourist centre.