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	Fictionwise eBooks: The Winged Man by Moyra Caldecott
		Bladud of Trinovantum, son of Hudibras, rode in to the hilltop fort of Keron son of Mel.
		Bladud had met him before at his father's court, for he was one of the many vassal lords who came to the High King's castle to deliver tribute.
		Bladud had not paid him much attention then--he was only one of the many who pitched their tents around his father's rath at festival.
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	Bladud at AllExperts
		Bladud or Blaiddyd was a mythical king of the Britons, for whose existence there is no historical evidence.
		In its final form Bladud was sent by his father to be educated in the liberal arts at Athens.
		After his father's death he returned, with four philosophers, and founded a university at Stamford in Lincolnshire, which flourished until it was suppressed by St Augustine on account of heresies which were taught there.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/bl/bladud.htm (508 words)

	Proceedings held in 1998
		Bladud was banished from his father’s kingdom, when he revealed to the court that he had contracted leprosy.
		Bladud was then able to return to London and seek out his mother, where he was embraced and his rightful place as heir to the throne re-instated.
		Bladud was a hero of the soul, of the spirit, and of the mind.
	www.brlsi.org /proceed1998/lecture230798.htm (866 words)

	Bath impact - Leon Osborne looks at the myths surrounding the city of Bath (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bladud's luck was not on his side and things took yet another turn for the worst when some of the pigs contracted his disease.
		Bladud followed the pig into the bog to retrieve it and found that where the mud touched his skin it was healed.
		Bladud then abandoned his herd of pigs and returned to his father's court, where he was welcomed back with open arms.
	www.bath.ac.uk /students-union/impact/impact-stable/frontend/DefaultArticle.php?id=394312 (426 words)

	Reconstructing The Roman Baths of Bath, England
		One legend states the city was founded by Bladud, the son of King Lud ("Bladud of Bath").
		According to the legend, Bladud was exiled from his hometown for being a leper before he became a king.
		Supposedly, Bladud attempted to cure his leprosy by bathing in the mud as the pigs did.
	www.nicholls.edu /art-dhc/surveyessays/romanbaths.htm (2522 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Bladud or Blaiddyd was a mythical king of the Britons, for whose existence there is little historical evidence.
		In its final form Bladud was sent by his father to be educated in the liberal arts at Athens.
		Eighteenth century Bath architect John Wood, the Elder wrote about Bladud, and put forth the fanciful suggestion that he should be identified with Abaris the Hyperborean, the healer known from Classical Greek sources.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Bladud (494 words)

	Bladud of Bath
		John Wood the elder, the architect responsible for Bath’s finest buildings, was a firm believer in Bladud whom he regarded as a patron of the Druids.
		The acorn finials surmounting the Kings Circus may well be a reference by Wood to the Druidic legacy patronised by Bladud, for the oak was sacred to the Druids.
		BLADUD became the ninth King of the Britons in 863 B.C. succeeding his father Ludhudibras.
	www.cityofbath.co.uk /history/body_bladud.html (494 words)

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		One day Bladud was travelling close to the river Avon when he settled down near a steamy swamp.
		Bladud amazed by the transformation decided to try out the swamp himself and emersed himself into the waters, instantly the leprosy left his body and he emerged cured.
		Overjoyed by his good fortune, Bladud returned to his father's court and was welcomed back as the prodigal son.
	www.artuk.co.uk /tour/bladud.htm (282 words)

	The Legend of King Bladud
		Bladud was the legendary founder of Bath and the sacred temple of Aqua Sullis.
		Bladud struggled to pull the pig from the bog and became covered in the foul smelling mud.
		Finally Bladud returned to Court, where he was welcomed with open arms by his mother, who recognised the ring she had given him so many years before.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /legends/bladud.html (355 words)

	Legends: Bladud - founder of Bath
		Bladud, King of the Britons and father of the unfortunate King Lear who was immortalised by Shakespeare, had spent much of his youth studying in Athens where he contracted leprosy.
		As Bladud drove his pigs in search of acorns he crossed the River Avon at shallows north of Saltford - at a place which subsequently took its name from the legend - Swineford.
		Bladud's pigs also contracted his disease but were cured when they rolled in the hot mud around Bath's springs.
	beehive.thisisbristol.com /default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=7602&PageID=40522 (385 words)

	I. THE PERIOD OF LEGEND
		Indian mythology, in recent addition to the story of the demons and their rigid dirigible, already quoted, gives the story of Hanouam, who fitted himself with wings by means of which he sailed in the air and, according to his desire, landed in the sacred Lauka.
		Bladud, the ninth king of Britain, is said to have crowned his feats of wizardry by making himself wings and attempting to fly--but the effort cost him a broken neck.
		Bladud may have been as mythic as Uther, and again he may have been a very early pioneer.
	www.rcaeronautics4dodos.filipinovegetarianrecipe.com /history_of_aeronautics/01c_the_period_of_legend.htm (865 words)

	The Mystery of Bladud
		Once upon a time there was an prince called Bladud who was barred from the royal court because he had leprosy.
		The first person to name Bladud as the founder of Bath was a 12th-century spinner of tales called Geoffrey of Monmouth.
		Geoffrey's 'Kings' Lud, Leir and Bladud were claimed to be the founders of London, Leicester and Bath.
	www.buildinghistory.org /bath/medieval/bladud.htm (936 words)

	English Exchange with Stowe School - Visits
		According to its legend, Bath was founded as follows: In 850 BC, Bladud, the eldest son of the legendary Celtic King Lud, was born.
		As a boy, Bladud contracted leprosy and was sent to Swainswick to become a pig farmer.
		One day as he was watching his pigs, Bladud noticed that some of the pigs were rolling around in the thick mud and he went to take a closer look.
	www.theresianum.ac.at /projekte/english/v05.htm (976 words)

	Bath (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In her temple he lit fires which never went out and which never fell away into ash, for the moment that they began to die down they were turned into balls of stone.
		Bladud practices necromancy and meets his death when a pair of wings he had constructed for himself fails to support him.
		Later tradition says that Bladud was a leper who was cured by the waters at Bath, but Geoffrey does not reflect this story.
	faculty.arts.ubc.ca /sechard/hrb_bath.htm (459 words)

	The Mystery of Bladud
		Once upon a time there was an prince called Bladud who was barred from the royal court because he had leprosy.
		The first person to name Bladud as the founder of Bath was a 12th-century spinner of tales called Geoffrey of Monmouth.
		Geoffrey's 'Kings' Lud, Leir and Bladud were claimed to be the founders of London, Leicester and Bath.
	www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Bath/Medieval/Bladud.htm (936 words)

	Bath
		Bladud, the son of the ancient British king Lud Hudibras, became a leper.
		Bladud had drawn the hood of his cloak over his face, so as to conceal it.
		She took it out, looked at it, and exclaimed, "Our son is here." Bladud then came forward, was recognised; was found quite free from leprosy; and in time succeeded his father on the throne.
	www.mspong.org /picturesque/bath.html (1104 words)

	December 20, Every-Day Book
		According to fabulous history, the virtues of the hot springs at Bath, were discovered long before the christian era, by Bladud, a British prince, who having been driven from his father's house because he was leprous, was reduced like the prodigal son to keep swine.
		Whereupon prince Bladud, attaining "to the height of this great argument," tried the same remedy with the same success, and when he became king, built a city upon the spot—the famous city of Bath.
		Beau Nash, the founder of the theatre at Bath, made laws to regulate when and where the company should assemble, and when they should separate; arranged the tactics of the dance; enacted the dress in which ladies should appear; and, if they ventured to disobey, whatever was their rank, turned them back.
	www.uab.edu /english/hone/etexts/edb/day-pages/354-dec20.html (367 words)

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		This is the story of Bladud, the father of King Lear.
		There is a tradition that there was a king in ancient Britain called Bladud, son of King Hudibras and father of King Lear, who lived some time between 800 and 500 BC.
		As High King, ruling from his capital Trinovantum, New Troy, now known as London, he inherited the traditions his ancestors had brought from Troy, Italy and Greece, but he was living among and ruling a people who were a mixture of the ancient peoples of the land and Celtic immigrants.
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	The Winged Man (sampler)
		Bladud flushed and began to resent the feeling that he was being treated like a green boy instead of a man. For a boy on the threshold of manhood this could seem intolerable.
		Bladud reflected on the noise and bustle of his father’s court, the endless comings and goings, the pressure on him to conform to his father’s ideal of the heir to the High Kingship.
		Bladud slept long and deeply, and was woken at last, when the summer sun was high in the sky, by a louder than usual hubbub in the courtyard.
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	Tales of Old Gloucestershire
		Before Bladud left the palace his mother, the Queen, gave him a ring, a token to present to her on his return should he ever recover, or at worst to buy himself some comfort in his hours of torment.
		Tired and full of anguish at this latest blow- to his fortunes, Bladud wandered along the banks of the river to a place near some swampy ground with warm steam rising from it and here he spent the night.
		When lie awoke next morning he found his pigs wallowing in the mud and steaming waters of the swamp, apparently loving every minute of it.Casually observing his pigs the following day he noticed to his surprise that they were beginning to lose some of their leprous scabs.
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	Healing Powers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bladud noticed that a pig was rolling around in the mud of the spring waters and was miraculously cured of it's scurvy
		Bladud began rolling in the mud as well and his leprosy disappeared.
		Prince Bladud created the city of Bath in the area around the spring water that aided in creating the mud and erected a temple to show thanks (11).
	students.washington.edu /dmvogel/healingpowers.htm (216 words)

	BLADUD
		Bladud A mythical king of England, and father of King Lear.
		Bladud studied magic, and, attempting to fly, fell into the temple of Apollo and was dashed to pieces.
		"BLADUD" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/english/Bl/Bladud.html (295 words)

	Charles Dickens: The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club: Chapter 36: The Chief Features Of Which Will Be Found To ...
		This was no other than Prince Bladud himself, in honour of whose happiness a whole people were, at that very moment, straining alike their throats and purse-strings.
		The truth was, that the prince, forgetting the undoubted right of the minister for foreign affairs to fall in love on his behalf, had, contrary to every precedent of policy and diplomacy, already fallen in love on his own account, and privately contracted himself unto the fair daughter of a noble Athenian.
		He might have endeavoured to break her heart by a systematic course of insult and neglect; or, if the spirit of her sex, and a proud consciousness of her many wrongs had upheld her under this ill-treatment, he might have sought to take her life, and so get rid of her effectually.
	dickens.thefreelibrary.com /The-Posthumous-Papers-Of-The-Pickwick-Club/1-36-2 (2906 words)

	Great Britain - 1794 - 1/2 Penny Token (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Male bust with a bushy beard and wearing an Eastern crown; a bow and quiver of arrows slung across his shoulders.
		Bladud was the eldest son of Lud Hudibras, king of Britain.
		Educated at Athens, he returned home a leper, and was placed under restraint to prevent the spread of infection.
	www.napoleonicmedals.org /coins/brit94-42.htm (329 words)

	Bard of Bath > Kevan Manwaring
		With marble and limestone a dome to raise
		Bladud is essentially a solar hero, a sun king whose vitality ensures the lands fertility and whose reign mirrored the journey of the sun through the year.
		In the Roman Baths museum Bladud can be seen in the winged disc of the solar pediment - the so-called Gorgon's Head whose snakes are in fact flames (except for the two which form a torc - a Celtic neck ring symbolising high status).
	bardofbath.freeservers.com /kevan_poem.html (1137 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Bladud.
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Bladud.
		He built the city of Bath, and dedicated the medicinal springs to Minerva.
		Bladud studied magic, and, attempting to fly, fell into the temple of Apollo and was dashed to pieces.
	www.bartleby.com /81/1985.html (81 words)

	Bath.co.uk - Bath thru the ages
		Bath was founded by Bladud, the eldest son of the legendary King Lud.
		As a boy, Bladud contracted leprosy and was banished to Swainswick to become a pig farmer.
		Noticing that the pigs scurvy had been cleared up by the mud, Bladud himself started to roll in it, smothering his whole body from head to foot.
	www.bath.co.uk /_code/sections/baththrutheages (3226 words)

	The Hot Swamp, by R.M. Ballantyne, Chapter 37 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Bladud walked out to the Hebrew’s hut next day and informed him of what had taken place, that long-suffering man heaved a deep sigh and expressed his intense relief that the whole affair was at last cleared up and had come to an end.
		It first burst upon their senses as a new and grand idea when Bladud and Dromas, at the urgent request of their friends, stepped into the arena and gave a specimen of the manner in which the art was practised in Hellas.
		It is said that, owing to the genial influence of Bladud’s kind nature, Konar recovered his reason, and, forgetting the false fair-one who had jilted him, took to himself a helpmate who more than made up for her loss.
	www.athelstane.co.uk /ballanty/hotswamp/swamp37.htm (3726 words)

	Welcome to Bath & beyond :: the Roman Baths, Georgian spa City and World Heritage Site :: bath4u.com
		Disguised as a poor peasant, he earned his keep as a swineheard, but soon the pigs became infected with the disease.
		Deep was Bladud's dismay, until one day he came across a sow, which had been lost for a week, wallowing in a hot spring.
		It was not long before, restored to health, he returned to the Court.
	www.bath4u.com /main_one.htm (1757 words)

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