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    Armes Prydein (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈarmɛs ˈprədəin], The Prophecy of Britain) is an early 10th-century Welsh prophetic poem from the Book of Taliesin...
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    Prydain (redirect from Prydein)
    Britain (place name) Trioedd Ynys Prydein Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, vol. IV, p. 3819. Ifor Williams (ed.), Armes Prydein (University of Wales Press, 1955)...
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    Cadwaladr's name is invoked in a number of literary works such as in the Armes Prydein, an early 10th-century prophetic poem from the Book of Taliesin. While...
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    shape of a Welshman riding a goat—on Saint David's Day. In the poem Armes Prydein (The Prophesy of Britain), composed in the early to mid-10th century...
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    ("The Eternal Trinity") VI "Armes Prydein Vawr" ("The Great Prophesy of Britain") X "Daronwy" ("Daronwy") XLVII "Armes Prydein Bychan" ("The Lesser Prophesy...
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    referred to the people or their homeland, including as Kymry, in the Armes Prydein, in the 10th century. "Wales" on the other hand, is derived from an...
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    date from the 10th century or earlier, as it appears in the literary Armes Prydein. Welsh antiquarians of the 18th and 19th centuries hypothesized that...
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    of power in mid-10th century Britain. A Welsh-language poem entitled Armes Prydein, considered by Sir Ifor Williams to have been written in Deheubarth...
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    and argues that this identification is made already in Armes Prydein. At the time Armes Prydein was composed, the Breton nobility under Alan II, Duke of...
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    Cadwallon ap Cadfan (Moliant Cadwallon, by Afan Ferddig) c. 633. In Armes Prydein, believed to be written around 930–942, the words Cymry and Cymro are...
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  • would drive them back into the sea. One such poem is the 10th-century Armes Prydein from the Book of Taliesin which sees a coalition of Irish, British,...
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    XXV (Cambridge, 2008), ISBN 978-1-84384-171-5. ‘When and where was Armes Prydein Composed?’, Studia Celtica (Cardiff, 2008), xlii, pp. 145–49. ‘Cadell...
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    liturgical calendar on 1 March. David's popularity in Wales is shown by the Armes Prydein of around 930, a popular poem which prophesied that in the future, when...
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    the term Britannia (or Prydein in the native language) appeared in many Welsh works such as the Historia Britonum, Armes Prydein and the 12th-century Historia...
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    Tanet and Danet, found in the Historia Brittonum (c. AD 829/30) and Armes Prydein (c. AD 930). Standard reference works for English place-names (such...
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    Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1972-6060-9. Breeze, Andrew (1997). "Armes Prydein, Hywel Dda and the Reign of Edmund of Wessex". Études Celtique. 33:...
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    historical", but also cited the failure of the tenth century Welsh poem Armes Prydein, which prophesied the expulsion of the English from Britain, to mention...
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    Political poetry threads throughout the period from the very early Armes Prydein (10th-century Britain) to the goliard rebels of 12th and 13th centuries...
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    sea. Some of these works were presented as prophecies of Myrddin. The Armes Prydein (one of the earliest mentions of him) contains the line “Myrddin foretells...
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    under-kings, as well as the high level of tribute imposed upon them. In Armes Prydein Vawr (The Great Prophecy of Britain), a Welsh poet foresaw the day when...
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    Norse þing-vǫllr, "assembly-field"). At one point the tenth-century Armes Prydein makes reference to a great military alliance of peoples that included...
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    Wales portal List of movements in Wales Agnes O'Farrelly Alan Heusaff Armes Prydein Charles de Gaulle John Stuart Stuart-Glennie Mona Douglas Richard Jenkin...
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    (1996). Cornwall: a history. Fowey: Alexander Associates "Armes Prydein Vawr : The Prophecy of Prydein the Great : Book of Taliesin VI : From The Four Ancient...
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  • argued, includes a reminiscence of the 10th-century prophetic poem Armes Prydein. The description of the first finding and capture of Merlin shows close...
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    astonished Welsh reaction to these events is found in the contemporary poem, Armes Prydein, where the last independent king of Cornwall, reputedly King Howel,...
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  • strong Celtic tradition of prophetic poetry. Examples include the Welsh Armes Prydein and Ymddiddan Myrddin a Thaliesin (another dialogue); also the later...
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    city's modern name came into being. Durham is likely to be Gaer Weir in Armes Prydein, derived from Brittonic cajr meaning "an enclosed, defensible site,...
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  • ISBN 978-0-521-82992-2. Fulton, H (2000). "Tenth-Century Wales and Armes Prydein". Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. 7: 5–18. hdl:10107/1425845...
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  • ISBN 978-0-521-82992-2. Fulton, H (2000). "Tenth-Century Wales and Armes Prydein". Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. 7: 5–18. hdl:10107/1425845...
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    Welsh Cludwys, a term that is otherwise employed by the tenth-century Armes Prydein and means "People of the Clyde". The title accorded to Owain Foel differs...
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