Mochdref

Mochdref was a small village in Wales.

According to a local folk legends, the mythical figure Taliesin came to this valley after the fall of Camlann. He would often take the form of an eagle and observe the knights disporting themselves and gazed upon Sir Perceval and the Holy Grail in his hermitage.

By early 20th century, the village was very small, having around 20 houses, a jail and a local inn, the Purple Dragon.

During an excursion in Wales in summer 1920, Henry Walton Jones, Senior, stumbled upon this village. To entice Celtic legends about the Grail out of the locals, Jones socialized with them, quoting Taliesin's verses and engaging in drinking contests. Indeed, a shepherd and a folklorist sung him some fragments and Jones noted down those describing the Grail. Eventually Jones found himself standing on the bar singing Yale University college songs in front of a dozen attendants, got arrested and woke the next morning in jail. On his way to pay Jones's fee, Marcus Brody got lost and it took him most of the next morning to find the jail.

Behind the scenes
The name of the village seems to mean "pig-town" (moch + tref) in Welsh.