Gradlon the Great (Gradlon Meur) was a semi-legendary 5th century "king" of Cornouaille who became the hero of many Breton folk stories. The most famous...
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rich in commerce and the arts, with Gradlon's palace being made of marble, cedar and gold. In some versions, Gradlon built the city upon the request of...
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the 15th century, the earliest mentions of Ys and its king, Gradlon, do not mention Gradlon's daughter Dahut, and the king himself is to blame for the destruction...
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otherwise feed himself with herbs and roots found in the forest). When King Gradlon decided to create the diocese of Quimper, he called on Corentin and asked...
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to the "Queen of the North" Malgven, who gives it to her husband King Gradlon. Endowed with the ability to gallop on the waves, Morvarc'h is described...
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("Bad weather today") Llamrei, King Arthur's mare Morvarc'h, the horse of Gradlon in Breton legend The Nuckelavee, an Orcadian horse with no skin which sometimes...
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reigns over the land with her ageing husband, King Harold. She meets King Gradlon while he is raiding and falls in love with him. She persuades him to kill...
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Argol Parish close (section The statue of King Gradlon)
means "in danger of dying" and legend has it that it was here that King Gradlon's daughter Dahut died when the legendary city of Ys was engulfed by the...
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drowned as a result of its debauchery, with a single virtuous survivor, King Gradlon, escaping on a horse. According to Welsh legend, the kingdom of Cantre'r...
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tortues (The turtles) Le tas de crêpes (The pile of crêpes) Le Roi Gradlon (Gradlon King) 24h de la voile regatta The tide mill on Ploumanac'h Road Ste-Anne-des-Rochers...
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name "water bull" has been used for either creature. The Breton King Gradlon's magical "horse of the sea" Morvarc'h (whose name literally means "sea...
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Plougastel Flag of Poher Flag of Presqu'île de Crozon Flag of Pays Rouzig Gradlon (semi-legendary) Rivelen Mor Marthou (c. 430) Congar (c. 450) Daniel Drem...
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Fell Dragon. Sombron was gravely wounded, and the country he had ruled, Gradlon, was sunk beneath the ocean. The most important weapons of the ancient...
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Quimper include:[citation needed] Quimper Cathedral and the nearby statue of Gradlon (looking in the direction of Ys) Musée des Beaux-Arts (near the cathedral)...
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Barzaz Breiz, around 1884 he based on one of the songs his Flight of King Gradlon, depicting the king fleeing on horseback from his city of Ys as it is swallowed...
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region (§ 2). In this way, his presence also came to the attention of Gradlon, king of Cornouaille and a prominent figure in Breton legend (§ 3). A local...
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Landévennec, with the island then being given to Landévennec Abbey by Gradlon. 48°18′0.4″N 4°14′50.89″W / 48.300111°N 4.2474694°W / 48.300111; -4...
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Tribal leader of the Longshan Fergus Mór Semi-mythical king of Dál Riata Gradlon Semi-mythical king of Cornouaille Hayk Legendary founder and patriarch...
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historical existence of Conan, though he is now regarded as a mythical figure. Gradlon Ys Koch, p. 474. Bromwich, p. 320. Koch, p. 473. Bromwich, p. 321. History...
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Flight of King Gradlon (the King of Ys), by Évariste Vital Luminais, 1884....
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follows the Dumnonian line beginning with Gereint, Cado, Erbin, Guitol ap Gradlon, Marchell, and Riothamus) Riwal (510–520) Deroch (520–535), son of Riwal...
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blends the legend of Ys with the premise that Mark was condemned by Gradlon's daughter Ahès [fr] (or Dahut). Mark tried to hunt her when she assumed...
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Monsignor Graveran (1855) or also for the equestrian granite statue of King Gradlon, executed by the sculptor Le Brun de Lorient, and inaugurated on October...
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time of the construction.[not verified in body] According to legend King Gradlon met Saint Corentin on the mountain Mėnez-Hom and was so impressed by the...
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Lyrics and sheet music for the gwerz "Ar Roue Gralon Ha Kear Is" ("King Gradlon and the City of Ys", 1850)...
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was believed in Kaer Ahès, the name, Ahès, of the legendary daughter of Gradlon that would have led Ys in his loss. The main roads leading to Carhaix were...
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his artwork, Morvarc'h Argol in Argol Parish close which depicts King Gradlon. He is also the son of Jean-Jacques and Mireille Manrot-Le Goarnig. Katell...
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La fuite du roi Gradlon, by Évariste-Vital Luminais, circa 1884, Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper. The horse on the right is supposed to be Morvarc'h....
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second wife of Conan Meriadoc and the mother of his eldest son, Gradlon Mawr who became Gradlon the Great, King of Brittany. Darerca's second husband, Chonas...
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century and the beginning of the next: that of the town of Ys with King Gradlon, and an oral tale about King Marc'h of Cornouaille, collected by Yann ar...
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