From the early age of Cambrian history, when the peerless beauty of the high-born Myfanwy Fechan awoke the passion and the poesy of her admiring bard, Howel ap Einion Llygliw, down to the modern days of the more humble but not less renowned maiden, "Sweet Jenny Jones", Llangollen, that "sweetest of vales", seems to have been associated with recollections of tender and romantic interest.