- ("Mound Fortress") A
fortress containing the "Chair" of Taliesin, and
where Gweir was imprisoned. Caer
Wydyr ("Gl**** Fortress") A
fortress guarded by six...
-
brothers of Arthur's mother:
Llysgadrudd Emys,
Gwrbothu Hen,
Gweir Gwrhyd Ennwir, and
Gweir Paladyr Hir. It also says she had
another son, Gormant, to Ricca...
-
Culhwch and Olwen,
including Llygatrud Emys,
Gwrbothu Hen,
Gweir Gwrhyt Ennwir and
Gweir Baladir Hir,
similarly appear to
derive from this relationship...
- in the
cryptic early medieval poem
Preiddeu Annwfn: "bu
kyweir karchar gweir yg kaer sidi trwy
ebostol pwyll a phryderi. Neb kyn noc ef nyt aeth idi...
- of the Dor' – Durnovaria. The
original local name
would have been Dorn-
gweir giving the Old
English Dornwary. The town
became known as Dornwaraceaster...
-
legendary genealogies fix him and his
brothers Llygadrudd Emys,
Gweir Paladr Hir, and
Gweir Gwrhyd Ennwir as sons of
Amlawdd Wledig. The
Arthurian legends...
- confused. Erec's name
itself may be
derived from Guerec, the
Breton version of
Gweir, the name of
several of Arthur's
warriors and
relatives in the different...
- poet
intended these to be
distinct places.
Within the
Mound Fort's
walls Gweir, one of the "Three
Exalted Prisoners of Britain"
known from the
Welsh Triads...
-
denoted by the
epithet Hen ('the old' or 'the elder').
Gweir Paladr Hir ('Gwair Long Staff') and
Gweir Gwrhyd Ennwir ('Gwair
False Valour'),
listed as "uncles...
-
extended his
dominion over the s**** of the world.
Stout was the
prison of
Gweir [
Gwydion ] in Caer Sidi,
Through the
spite of
Pwyll and Pryderi: No one...
