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Iolo manuscripts: A selection of ancient Welsh manuscripts, in prose and verse, from the collection made by the late Edward Williams, Iolo Morganwg, for the purpose of forming a continuation of the Myfyrian archaiology; and subsequently proposed as materials for a new history of
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in approximately 53 CE. Caratacus' daughter is never named in the record of Tacitus and she is not mentioned with her mother, father and uncles as having been given a pardon from the brutality of a
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choral festival in 1898. Her name in the Cantana has variously been claimed to be both historical and derived from a neighbour of Elgar's in
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is dedicated to "Saint Eigon", but this almost certainly refers to Eigion, brother of St Cynidr, to whom the parish church in neighbouring
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among the Britons. Her name has doubtfully been linked to two Welsh churches and is found in manuscripts from the collection of
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An essay on the Welsh saints or the primitive Christians, usually considered to have been the founders of the churches in Wales
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Iolo Morganwg; Owen Jones; Society for the Publication of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, Abergavenny (1848).
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The Mabinogion, from the Llyfr coch o Hergest, and other ancient Welsh MSS., with an Engl
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Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s: Portrayal of the East
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The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales, Cornwall and Irish Saints
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St. Paul in Britain; or, The origin of British as opposed to papal Christianity
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Geoffrey (of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph); Saint Tysilio; Gildas (1811).
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Church of Saint Eigon, Llanigon - The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
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Panorama of the beauties, curiosities, and antiquities of North Wales
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The eccles. Antiquities of the Cymry; or: The ancient British church
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Eigen is also discussed as the first female saint in the works of
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making historical evidence of her existence dubious and limited.
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collection and in an extract he claimed to have copied from the
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in 1897-8 devoted to the defeat and capture of the king by the
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in the History of Dunraven Manuscript, a manuscript giving the
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is also the subject of a modern, time-slip novel by
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The parish church of Saint Eigon in Llanigon, Wales
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Index

Eurgain
Christian
saint
Iolo Morganwg

Caratacus
genealogy
Taliesin
Thomas Hopkin of Coychurch
Havod Uchtryd
Long Book of Thomas Truman
Iestyn ab Gwrgant
Sarllog
Caer Sarllog
Old Sarum
Saint Cyllin
Saint Ilid
Christianity
Britain
Saint Paul
Second Epistle to Timothy
Gladys
Welsh
Rice Rees
Jane Williams
Sabine Baring-Gould
John Williams (Ab Ithel)
Tacitus
Roman Senate
Claudius

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