Gelert and Prince Llewellyn’s Infant Son

Stock No: 000238

Height: 9.5 Inches / 24 cm

Reference: Harding Victorian Staffordshire Dogs, Page 177, Fig 3345B

A figure of the dog Gellert and Prince Llewellyns son with a dead wolf.  Welsh folk law tells the tale of Gellert the loyal and faithful hound belonging to Prince Llewellyn. He returns to his son’s room to find Gellert covered in blood and no sign of his infant son. He immediately draws his sword and slays his faithful hound only then to find the dead wolf with the infant child beneath it. Llewellyn never recovers from guilt having killed his dog who had fought off the attacking wolf.