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 | | The chief scribe was one Hywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch of Builth and his hand has been identified in several other Welsh manuscripts, including in the White Book of Rhydderch where the original scribe had left a space. |
 | | There is a close correspondence between some of the texts in the Red and White Books (for example, their versions of the 'Mabinogion' and the Triads) and it is generally held that they derived independently from a lost common archetype. |
 | | The Arthurian interest in the Black Book of Carmarthen poem Ymddiddan Gwyddno Garanhir ac Gwyn fab Nudd ('The Dialogue of Gwyddno Garanhir and Gwynn ap Nudd') is found near to the end, in seven stanzas that are sometimes considered as a separate work, Mi a Wum ('I have been'). |
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