Urien Rheged
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Urien ap Cynfarch Oer or Urien Rheged was a powerful sixth-century Brittonic-speaking figure who was possibly the ruler of the territory or kingdom known as Rheged. He is one of the best-known and bes
Places mentioned in early Welsh sources concerning Urien's period
The Book of Aneirin, page 23: the so-called 'Reciter's Prologue' to the Gododdin
Avalon
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Avalon is an island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and la
The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones
La Mort d'Arthur by James Archer (1860)
"Lady of the Isle of Avelyon", George Frampton's relief panel at 2 Temple Place in London
Ship-themed attributed arms of the Knight of Escalot