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daughter Creirwy. Of theee it may be sufficient to instance the Triad which celebrates her with Arianrod and Gwenn, verch Cywryd ab Crjdon, as one of the three beauteous ladies of the island.[1] One of the two Triads extant on the subject of Morvran has been already cited. (See p. 273.) It alhides to the extreme ugliness assigned him in the text, to which, nevertheless, he was indebted for the preservation of his life in the battle of Camla; the other ranks him with Gilbert mab Cadgyffro and Gwgan Gleddyvrudd, as one of the three stayers of slaughter,[2] No further particulars of him are preserved.
Gwyddno Garanhir.—Page 472.
- ↑ Triad 107.
- ↑ Triad xxix.
- ↑ Seithinyn the Drunkard's mischance in letting the sea overflow the Cantrev y Gwaelod, is related in Triad xli.
- ↑ Traces of three ancient stone embankments are said to be still visible in the district where this inundation took place. They are called Sam Cynvelyn, Sam y Bwch, and Sam Padrig. " The latter is particularly conspicuous, being left dry at low water to the extent of about nine miles, and the sailors of the neighbouring ports describe its whole length to be twenty-one miles, beginning near Harlech, and ranniDg in a sonth-west direction." (Cambro-Briton, 1. 362.) The Hanes Cymra contains some interesting remarks on this subject.