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Gradlon the
Great (
Gradlon Meur) was a semi-legendary 5th
century "king" of
Cornouaille who
became the hero of many
Breton folk stories. The most famous...
- rich in
commerce and the arts, with
Gradlon's palace being made of marble,
cedar and gold. In some versions,
Gradlon built the city upon the
request of...
- the 15th century, the
earliest mentions of Ys and its king,
Gradlon, do not
mention Gradlon's daughter Dahut, and the king
himself is to
blame for the destruction...
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otherwise feed
himself with
herbs and
roots found in the forest). When King
Gradlon decided to
create the
diocese of Quimper, he
called on
Corentin and asked...
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Flanders "Slechtweervandaag" ("Bad
weather today") Morvarc'h, the
horse of
Gradlon in
Breton legend The Nuckelavee, an
Orcadian horse with no skin
which sometimes...
- to the "Queen of the North" Malgven, who
gives it to her
husband King
Gradlon.
Endowed with the
ability to
gallop on the waves, Morvarc'h is described...
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means "in
danger of dying" and
legend has it that it was here that King
Gradlon's daughter Dahut died when the
legendary city of Ys was
engulfed by the...
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reigns over the land with her
ageing husband, King Harold. She
meets King
Gradlon while he is
raiding and
falls in love with him. She
persuades him to kill...
- name "water bull" has been used for
either creature. The
Breton King
Gradlon's magical "horse of the sea" Morvarc'h (whose name
literally means "sea...
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drowned as a
result of its debauchery, with a
single virtuous survivor, King
Gradlon,
escaping on a horse.
According to
Welsh legend, the
kingdom of Cantre'r...
