• The Chronicles of Prydain is a pentalogy of children's high fantasy Bildungsroman novels written by American author Lloyd Alexander and published by Henry...
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    Look up Prydain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prydain ([ˈprədai̯n], PRUH-dine; Middle Welsh: Prydein) is the modern Welsh name for Great Britain...
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  • Unbennaeth or Unbeinyaeth Prydein (Welsh for "The Monarchy of Britain") was an Old Welsh composition that served as a kind of national anthem in Wales...
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    Great Britain (redirect from Prydain Fawr)
    Priteni or Pretani. Priteni is the source of the Welsh language term Prydain, Britain, which has the same source as the Goidelic term Cruithne used...
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    Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island...
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  • Centrica (redirect from Nwy Prydain)
    Centrica plc is a British multinational energy and services company with its headquarters in Windsor, Berkshire. Its principal activity is the supply of...
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  • Lloyd Alexander (category The Chronicles of Prydain)
    translated into 20 languages. His most famous work is The Chronicles of Prydain, a series of five high fantasy novels whose conclusion, The High King,...
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  • The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain is a collection of short high fantasy stories for children by Lloyd Alexander and illustrator Margot Zemach....
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    Isles Other native names Éire agus an Bhreatain Mhór (Irish) Ynysoedd Prydain (Welsh) Enesow Bretennek (Cornish) Eileanan Bhreatainn (Scottish Gaelic)...
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  • Princess Eilonwy (category The Chronicles of Prydain characters)
    ay-LON-wee) is a fictional character in Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain. She appears in four of the five novels in the series, as well as Disney's...
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    Goursez Vreizh. Until 2019, Gorsedd Cymru was known as Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain ("the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Island of Britain"), or Gorsedd y Beirdd...
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  • Taran (character) (category The Chronicles of Prydain characters)
    Taran is a fictional character from Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain series of novels. Serving as the series's central protagonist, he is first...
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    Armes Prydein (redirect from Armes Prydain)
    Collective (in Welsh) "The Great Prophecy of Britain" at the CLC "Armes Prydain Bychan" at the CLC (in Welsh) "The Lesser Prophecy of Britain" at the CLC...
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  • The 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (Welsh: Gemau Ymerodraeth Prydain a'r Gymanwlad 1958) were held in Cardiff, Wales, from 18 to 26 July 1958...
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  • novel by Lloyd Alexander, the third of five volumes in The Chronicles of Prydain. The story continues the adventures of Taran, the "Assistant Pig-Keeper"...
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    The Welsh Triads (Welsh: Trioedd Ynys Prydein, "Triads of the Island of Britain") are a group of related texts in medieval manuscripts which preserve fragments...
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  • The Black Cauldron (novel) (category The Chronicles of Prydain novels)
    writer Lloyd Alexander, the second of five volumes in The Chronicles of Prydain. The story continues the adventures of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper...
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  • The Black Cauldron (film) (category The Chronicles of Prydain)
    Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, a series of five novels that are in turn based on Welsh mythology. Set in the mythical land of Prydain during the...
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  • the maps of Prydain for the popular series by Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain (1964 to 1968). Meanwhile, there were two Prydain picture books...
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  • Gurgi (category The Chronicles of Prydain characters)
    Gurgi is a fictional character in The Chronicles of Prydain, the series of fantasy novels by Lloyd Alexander. Gurgi is the hero Taran's faithful companion...
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  • Taran Wanderer (category The Chronicles of Prydain novels)
    Castle of Llyr and precedes The High King in the series The Chronicles of Prydain, which takes place in a setting inspired by Welsh myth. In the course of...
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    various other languages, including the English Britain and the modern Welsh Prydain. In the 9th century the associated terms Bretwalda and Brytenwealda were...
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  • High fantasy examples Literature Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain Piers Anthony's Xanth Terry Brooks' Shannara Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles...
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  • The Book of Three (category The Chronicles of Prydain novels)
    writer Lloyd Alexander, the first of five volumes in The Chronicles of Prydain. The series follows the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper, a...
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  • BBC. 11 August 2008. McMullen, A. Joseph. "Enwau ac Anryfeddodau Ynys Prydain and a Tradition of Topographical Wonders in Medieval Britain". Harvard...
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    v t e British Isles Names Terminology Alba Albion Cymru Prydain Britain Éire Hibernia Politics Geography History (outline) Society...
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  • Pabo Post Prydain (supp. fl. before 500) was a king from the Hen Ogledd or Old North of sub-Roman Britain. According to tradition Pabo "the Pillar of...
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    list of legendary kings of Britain (Welsh: Brenin y Brythoniaid, Brenin Prydain) derives predominantly from Geoffrey of Monmouth's circa 1136 work Historia...
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  • much older in origin. The book has also been known as Achau Saint Ynys Prydain ("Genealogy of the Saints" or "Pedigrees of the Saints of the Isle of Britain")...
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  • The High King (category The Chronicles of Prydain novels)
    novel by American author Lloyd Alexander. It concludes the Chronicles of Prydain series and won the Newbery Medal for children's literature. In the series...
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