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Updated: May 27, 2025
Who does not feel his mind agreeably cleared about our friends the Fenians, when he learns that the root of their name, fen, 'white, appears in the hero Fingal; in Gwynned, the Welsh name for North Wales in the Roman Venedotia; in Vannes in Brittany; in Venice?
They're mighty nice to me when you consider what they're up against. And those two with the dimples, Lady Gwynned and Lady Honora, are just peaches. Any fellow might" he stopped and looked serious again "That's why they'd count," he added. They were having one of their odd long talks under a particularly splendid copper beech which provided the sheltered out-of-door corner his grace liked best.
He was attended by Gerald Barry, or Giraldus Cambrensis, a half-Norman half-Welsh ecclesiastic, who was one of the chief historians of the period, and had the ungracious office of tutor to Prince John. When Owayn ap Gwynned died, in 1169, the kingdom of Aberfraw, or North Wales, was reduced to the isle of Anglesea and the counties of Merioneth and Caernarvon, with parts of Denbigh and Cardigan.
Owayn ap Gwynned, King of Aberfraw, or North Wales, had many wars with Henry II.; and, uniting with the bard king, Owayn Cyvelioc, of Powysland, did fearful damage to the English, which Henry attempted to revenge by an incursion into Merionethshire; but though he gained a battle at Ceiroc, he was forced to retreat through the inhospitable country, his troops harassed by the weather, and cut off by the Welsh, who swarmed on the mountains, so that his army arrived at Chester in a miserable state.
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