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Cynddylan (Modern
Welsh pronunciation: /kən'ðəlan/), or
Cynddylan ap
Cyndrwyn was a seventh-century
Prince of
Powys ****ociated with Pengwern. Cynddylan...
- needed] Penda's
Welsh allies may have
included Cynddylan ap
Cyndrwyn of Powys: the awdl-poem
Marwnad Cynddylan,
thought to have been
composed shortly after...
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exploits of
Cynddylan, as
imagined around the 9th century, are told in the Old
Welsh Canu
Heledd (a
cycle of
poems named after Cynddylan's sister), possibly...
- made in
Marwnad Cynddylan, a
probably seventh-century awdl-poem, in
which the
mythological hero is
compared to the
deceased Cynddylan, a seventh-century...
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prefixing the name of a house,
parish or the mother's surname, as in "
Cynddylan Jones". A
hyphen was
sometimes later introduced, for
example "Griffith-Jones"...
- character. One
prominent figure in the
poems is Heledd's dead
brother Cynddylan.
Dorothy Ann Bray
summarised the
cycle thus: The
entire cycle of the Heledd...
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invades Pengwern (modern Wales) and
kills King
Cynddylan in battle, near the
River Trent.
Cynddylan's brother Morfael and the rest of the
royal family...
- Proto-Celtic, Brill, 2009, pp. 197–198 John T. Koch, Cunedda, Cynan, Cadwallon,
Cynddylan: Four
Welsh Poems and
Britain 383–655 (Aberystwyth:
University of Wales...
- in the
perhaps seventh-century
Welsh praise-poem
Marwnad Cynddylan,
which says of
Cynddylan: 'pan
fynivys mab pyd mor fu parawd' ('when the son of Pyd...
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literature which places an English-battling seventh-century king
called Cynddylan in the
Wroxeter region.: 33–34
Scholars also
argued that the importance...
