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1870s book containing Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain ("Mystery of the Bards of the Island of Britain", Iolo Morganwg) Prydain is the medieval Welsh term for the island of Britain. The Latin name Albion was not used by the Welsh. More specifically, Prydain may refer to the Brittonic parts of the island; that is, the parts south of Caledonia.
The Chronicles of Prydain is a pentalogy of children's high fantasy Bildungsroman novels written by American author Lloyd Alexander and published by Henry Holt and Company.The series includes: The Book of Three (1964), The Black Cauldron (1965), The Castle of Llyr (1966), Taran Wanderer (1967), and The High King (1968).
Tri Thlws ar Ddeg Ynys Prydain, ed. and tr. Rachel Bromwich, Trioedd Ynys Prydein. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1978; revised ed. 1991 (Critical edition of the trioedd texts with notes, first published in 1961). Appendix III. Edited from Cardiff MS. 17, pp. 95–6, and other variants.
Other gorseddau exist outside of Wales, such as the Cornish Gorsedh Kernow [3] and the Breton Goursez Vreizh. [4] 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 ("the Gorsedd of the bards") for short.
Unbennaeth or Unbeinyaeth [1] Prydein (Welsh for "The Monarchy of Britain") was an Old Welsh composition that served as a kind of national anthem in Wales in the Early Middle Ages. The bards of the royal courts of Aberffraw, Dinefwr, Mathrafal, and Caerleon [2] were required by law [3] to follow the army [4] and recite the song before and after ...
"Armes Prydain Bychan" at the CLC (in Welsh) "The Lesser Prophecy of Britain" at the CLC; Further reading. Bollard, John K. (2011). "Armes Prydein Vawr". In ...
The earliest surviving collection of the Welsh Triads is bound in the manuscript Peniarth 16, now at the National Library of Wales, which has been dated to the third quarter of the 13th century and contains 46 of the 96 triads collated by Rachel Bromwich.
The series was inspired by Welsh mythology and by the castles, scenery, and language of Wales, which the author experienced during World War II army combat intelligence training. [2] [3] Nearly all of the proper names in Prydain are historical or mythological. [2] "Isle of Mona" is a version of Ynys Môn, the Welsh name for the Isle of Anglesey.