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	saint david (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The king of Ceredigion in the 510s was Gwyddno Garanhir, according to regional tradition.
		As a son of King Gwyddno, David was a grandson of King Ceredig, and a nephew of King Maelgwn of Gwynedd, and a brother of Elphin the successor to the Kingdom of Ceredigion and the foster-father and first patron of the bard Taliesin.
		He became renowned as a teacher and preacher, founding monastic settlements in Britain and Brittany, in a period when neighbouring tribal regions (that were to be united as 'England' three hundred years later) were still mostly pagan.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /saint_david.html (736 words)

	EBK: King Gwyddno Garanhir of Meirionydd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Western Merionydd, known as Maes Gwyddno, was part of the Cantref Gwaelod, a legendary area of low lying land that was kept safe from the constant threat of flood by a large stone dyke known as Sarn Badrig (one of a number of natural pebble ridges to be seen north of Barmouth at low-tide).
		It was during Gwyddno's reign that the sluice gates of the dyke were supposedly left open by a maiden named Mererid, probably through the drunkenness of Seithen Hen (the Old), King of Caer Rihog, an adjoining region of the Cantref.
		Gwyddno was thus forced to move his court to higher ground in the East.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /bios/gwyddgmd.html (227 words)

	The Drowning of the Bottom Hundred
		N the beginning of the sixth century, Gwyddno Garanhir was King of Ceredigion.
		The nearest town to the submerged realm of Gwyddno is Aberdovey.
		Gwyddno's son Elphin is the same Elphin who rescued the infant Taliesin in the Ystoria Taliesin, and to whom Taliesin often alludes.
	www.ancienttexts.org /library/celtic/ctexts/cantrev.html (3193 words)

	Gwyddno Garanhir
		Gwyddno Garanhir is chiefly known from Ystoria Taliesin though he is also mentioned in two poems contained within the Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin.
		In the Ystoria Taliesin Gwyddno is the father of the unfortunate Elffin and the ruler of Canolbarth.
		The Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin poem Ymddiddan Gwyn ap Nudd a Gwyddno Garanhir (The Discourse of Gwyn ap Nudd and Gwyddno Longshanks).
	www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_g/gwyddno.html (408 words)

	XIII. Taliesin. The Mabinogeon. Vol. III: The Age of Chivalry. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And he possessed a weir upon the strand between Dyvi and Aberystwyth, near to his own castle, and the value of an hundred pounds was taken in that weir every May eve.
		And Gwyddno had an only son named Elphin, the most hapless of youths, and the most needy.
		Gwyddno asked him if he had had a good haul at the weir, and he told him
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/182/213.html (1755 words)

	Cantre'r Gwaelod
		Gwyddno Garanhir ruled the lowlands to the west of Wales.
		The land was so fertile it was said that any acre was worth four acres elsewhere, but it depended upon a dyke to hold back the sea.
		Gwyddno Garahir and his followers were forced to leave the lowlands and make a poorer living in the hills and valleys of Wales.
	www.corris-w.dircon.co.uk /cantre.htm (179 words)

	The Drowning of the Bottom Hundred (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		IN the beginning of the sixth century, Gwyddno Garanhir was King of Ceredigion.
		It contained also one of the three privileged ports of the Isle of Britain which was called the Port of Gwyddno, and had been known to the Phoenicians and Carthaginians when they visited the island for metal in the dim dawn of history.
		On his arrival, he was informed by the porter that the knife was in the meat, and the drink in the horn; there was revelry in the great hail, and none might enter therein but the son of a king of a privileged country or a craftsman bringing his craft.
	www.allstarz.org /religioustext/neu/celt/wfb/wfb06.htm (3072 words)

	Corn and culture heroes - Page 2 - THE TOLKIEN FORUM
		"Gwyddno Garanhir was Sovereign of Cantref y Gwaelod, a territory bordering on the sea, and protected from its ravages by a high embankment.
		Gwyddno and his Court escaped with difficulty from the impending ruin, and the Cantrev y Gwaelod was submerged and irretrievably lost.
		By this calamity sixteen fortified cities, the largest and finest that were in Wales, excepting only Caerlleon upon Usk, were entirely destroyed, and Cardigan Bay occupies the spot where the fertile plains of the Cantrev had been the habitation and support of a flourishing population.
	www.thetolkienforum.com /showthread.php?p=438280 (1095 words)

	Lost Lands of Cardigan Bay
		Many, however, had privately questioned Gwyddno Garanhir's wisdom in appointing this man to such a responsible position.
		It was about 40 miles long and 20 miles across (at its widest), being low and level, highly populated and cultivated, with sixteen fortified towns which included the principal city of Caer Wyddno, seat of its ruler, Gwyddno Garanhir.
		It was defended from the sea by a strong sea wall or embankment called Sarn Badrig, in charge of which Gwyddno placed Seithennin.
	www.phoenix-web.net /pa/NewboldRevel/Lost.htm (969 words)

	Gwyddno Garanhir -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In (Click link for more info and facts about Welsh mythology) Welsh mythology, Lord Gwyddno Garanhir of Gwynedd was the father of (Click link for more info and facts about Elphin) Elphin.
		His name is (A Celtic language of Wales) Welsh and means Gwyddno Long-Shank.
		The basket of Gwyddno Garanhir is one of the (Click link for more info and facts about Thirteen Treasures of Britain) Thirteen Treasures of Britain.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gw/gwyddno_garanhir.htm (78 words)

	British Mysteries - Cantre’r Gwaelod
		A sunken kingdom in Cardigan Bay, associated with Gwyddno Garanhir (a character in the tale of Taliesin).
		The lord of the Cantre’r Gwaelod in 520 A.D. was Gwyddno Garanhir: and the keeper of the Embankment was Seithennin, “one of the three immortal drunkards of Britain.” One evening there was a great banquet, and Seithennin, in his usual state, left the sluices open.
		Nowadays when the sea is very still and the water clear, the walls and buildings are said to be seen still, and when the water below moves them, the church bells sound faintly.
	www.ynysprydein.org /places/cantre.htm (173 words)

	Mabinogion TALIESIN
		And he possessed a weir upon the strand between Dyvi and Aberstwyth, near to his own castle, and the value of an hundred pounds was taken in that weir every May eve, And Gwyddno had an only son named Elphin, the most helpless of youths, and the most needy.
		Gwyddno asked him if he had had a good haul at the weir, and he told him that he had got that which was better than fish.
		And in this manner did he set his master free from prison, and protect the innocence of his mistress, and silence the bards so that not one of them dared to say a word, Right glad was Elphin, right glad was Taliesin.
	www.webmesh.co.uk /12taliesin.html (1585 words)

	David of Wales - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Latin phrase itself translates as "a holy king of Ceredigion." The king of Ceredigion in the 510s was Gwyddno Garanhir, according to regional tradition.
		If the son of King Gwyddno, David was a grandson of King Ceredig, and a nephew of King Maelgwn of Gwynedd, and a brother of Elphin the successor to the Kingdom of Ceredigion and the foster-father and first patron of the bard Taliesin.
		David was born on a stormy night at or near Capel Non (Non's chapel) within a short walk of the present day city of Saint David's.
	orthodoxwiki.org /David_of_Wales (901 words)

	The Innundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Each year it was custom that the king should carry from the sacred well a single cup of water down to the sea and, in a symbolic handfasting with the waves, empty the cup into the ocean thus marking the joining of the king, the land and the goddess.
		So when Gwyddno came to beg the cup of water to perform the ceremony and he went, as was custom, into Meroe's hut with her she told him of his son's behaviour and the old man felt unable, for love of Elfin, to lie with the woman as custom dictated.
		All who know her know that the goddess is unguilable and she is pitiless with those that betray her within their hearts and thus she whipped up the winds to boil the sea as he entered, still bearing the cup, in nakedness as the ceremony dictates.
	www.ashleysworld.org /Magick/Articles/Innundation.html (1396 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gwyddno Garanhir, considering his blue-eyed boy had gone missing, was reasonably calm, but Mam Garanhir was anything but.
		Maebh was being distracted by Lady Garanhir's tiring women, who were helping her try on dresses, while O'Liam was following Siobhan Flowerface around like a moonstruck puppy.
		Lady Garanhir had been carted off by Elffin's old Nanny, who was patting her hands, giving her sips of something soothing, and calling her "cariad" and "ducky" a lot, while Mam Garanhir sniffled and mopped up tears.
	www.robsullivan.clara.net /decisions.htm (536 words)

	The Dialogue of Gwyddno Garanhir and Gwyn ap Nudd
		The Dialogue of Gwyddno Garanhir and Gwyn ap Nudd
		ULL of conflict was he, active in dispersing an arrayed army,
		I have been where the soldiers of Prydain were slain,
	www.maryjones.us /ctexts/bbc33.html (229 words)

	British Mysteries - Llyn Pair
		According to William Owen Pughe there was a lake called Llyn Pair about 3 miles from Towyn, and the nearby river, called Gwenwyn Meirch Gwyddno (the poison of the horses of Gwyddno) in the story of Taliesin, was at the time of writing known as Avon Llyn y Pair.
		The cauldron burst in two, because all the liquor within it except the three charm-bearing drops was poisonous.
		The liquor of the cauldron ran out into a stream, and poisoned the horses of Gwyddno Garanhir, so that the confluence of that stream was called the Poison of the Horses of Gwyddno from that time forth.
	www.ynysprydein.org /places/llynpair.htm (190 words)

	Taliesin
		At that time the weir of Gwyddno was on the strand between Dyvi and Aberystwyth, near to his own castle, and the value of an hundred pounds was taken in that weir every May eve.
		In those days Gwyddno had an only son named Elphin, the most hapless of youths, and the most needy.
		The mention of Gwyddno Garanhir, instead of Elphin in this place is evidently an error of some transcriber of the MS).
	www.allsortsoddbods.com /SilverEagleGathering/tm/tm9.htm (3984 words)

	Taliesin
		And this was the first poem that Taliesin ever sang, being to console Elphin in his grief for that the produce of the weir was lost, and, what was worse, that all the world would consider that it was through his fault and ill-luck.
		And then Gwyddno Garanhir asked him what he was, whether man or spirit.
		Then came Elphin to the house or court of Gwyddno his father, and Taliesin with him.
	www.missgien.net /arthurian/mabinogion/taliesin3.html (457 words)

	uExpress.com: Tell Me A Story by Amy Friedman and Jillian Gilliland -- (08/17/2003) adapted by Amy Friedman and ...
		Once upon a time in Wales, King Gwyddno Garanhir, known as Gwyddno Long-Shanks, ruled over a beautiful land in a place known as Cantre'r Gwaelod, or the Bottom Hundred.
		He knew well that watching the sea for hours was a difficult and tiring task, and he had to make certain the watchmen were wide awake and alert at all times.
		The king spoke proudly of his wall and his tower and his people, and one day King Gwyddno Long-Shanks decided to honor his people's hard work and devotion.
	www.uexpress.com /tellmeastory?uc_full_date=20030817 (861 words)

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		Un esboniad yw mae rhan o Gantre'r Gwaelod yw'r Sarn - cantref Gwyddno Garanhir a foddwyd pan adawyd y dorau'n agored gan y ceidwad meddw, Seithenyn.
		One suggestion is that the Causeway is part of Cantre'r Gwaelod - Gwyddno Garanhir's commote which was drowned when the doors were left open by the drunken keeper, Seithenyn.
		A less romantic suggestion put forward in the "British Regional Geology North Wales" is that the Causeway is the remnants of a boulder clay bank from Ice Age.
	www.cimwch.com /llongddrylliadau/llongddrylliadau.htm (1710 words)

	Taliesin
		Now there was at that time in Gwynedd, a lord named Gwyddno Garanhir, who had a son, Elphin, that was reckoned the most unlucky man alive.
		There was a weir on Gwyddno's land that had always had a huge catch of salmon in it on May Eve, so Gwyddno resolved to let Elphin have it to help turn his luck.
		Then Gwyddno asked him what else he had to say, and Taliesin replied with another poem.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/t/taliesin.html (2532 words)

	A Who's Who of World Mythology : Amen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Other owners was given variously as Arawn, Ogyrvan (the father of Ceridwen), or Gwyddno Garanhir Longshanks.
		Gwyddno’s mwys or basket could feed one hundred people if food were placed in it, and Tyrnog Diwrnach would only feed the brave.
		Bran the Blessed also possessed a cauldron capable of restoring life to any being placed within it.
	www.angelfire.com /de/poetry/Whoswho/Amen.html (447 words)

	About Taliesin
		Gwion is reborn an incredibly beautiful baby, but Cerridwen casts him off out to sea in a large leather bag, because he reminds her of her son who is still ugly and stupid.
		Meanwhile, Elffin, son of Gwyddno Garanhir and the unluckiest prince in the history of Wales, is given a large estate in his father’s kingdom in mid Wales to rule over.
		Feeling sorry for his son, Gwyddno presents his son with the annual salmon catch of the Dovey River in compensation for the loss of his land.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/156285 (609 words)

	Our Stuff\website\Kerridwen
		Although bearing malice and murderous intent in her heart, she was to spare the life of her newborn by placing him in a bag and casting him into the waters of the weir of Gwyddno Garanhir.
		Gwyddno's son Elphin rescued Gwyion from drowning as he was attempting to net fish, the young child being his only catch of the day.
		On seeing the child's fairness of face, Elphin named him Taliesin - "the beautiful brow." Taliesin was to play an important role in Elphin's life as his chief bard - but that's another tale.
	www.btinternet.com /~kynran/Kerridwen.htm (1474 words)

	Taliesin quiz
		I will give you a title of a character and you will pick out the correct answer.
		Who was the Chief Druid to Gwyddno Garanhir?
		For this question I will give you the names and you will give me their title.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz/quiz1404481016008.html (87 words)

	Lowland Hundred (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Welsh folklore, the Lowland Hundred (or Cantre'r Gwaelod in Welsh) was a tract of fertile land stretching northwards from Ramsey Island to Bardsey Island over what is now Cardigan Bay to the west of Wales.
		Its capital was Caer Wyddno, seat of the ruler Gwyddno Garanhir.
		It was defended from the sea by a ditch called Sarn Badrig (St. Patrick's Street), over which a Keeper of the Embankment held charge.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Lowland-Hundred.htm (327 words)

	The Mabinogion: Taliesin: Taliesin
		And the cauldron burst in two, because all the liquor within it except the three charm-bearing drops was poisonous, so that the horses of Gwyddno Garanhir
		were poisoned by the water of the stream into which the liquor of the cauldron ran, and the confluence of that stream was called the Poison of the Horses of Gwyddno from that time forth.
		475:1 The mention of Gwyddno Garanhir, instead of Elphin ab Gwyddno in this place is evidently an error of some transcriber of the MS.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/celt/mab/mab32.htm (3833 words)

	Gwyn fab Nudd
		Gwyn fab Nudd figures in the tale of Culhwch ac Olwen as well as a poem in the Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin entitled Ymddiddan Gwyn ap Nudd a Gwyddno Garanhir as well as references in the mediaeval Buchedd Collen (The life of St Collen).
		The contest between Gwyn and Gwythyr may represent the contest between the summmer and winter kings for the solar year.
		More clues to Gwyn's attributes are given in the Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin porm, Ymddiddan Gwyn ap Nudd a Gwyddno Garanhir, (The Discourse of Gwyn ap Nudd and Gwyddno Garanhir).
	www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_g/gwyn.html (1339 words)

	Taliesin The Witch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Now there was at that time in Gwynedd, a lord named Gwyddno Garanhir, who had a son,
		Not an empty treasure is the prayer of Cynllo, Nor does God break his promise.
		No catch in Gwyddno's weir was ever as good as tonight's.
	www.angelfire.com /ma3/mythology/taletaliesin.html (2368 words)

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