[17] Rhys, Arthurian Legend, p. 7.
[18] Arthurian Legend, p. 7.
[19] A number of chieftains are styled gwledig in the Mabinogion (see index to edition of Welsh Red Book, text by Rhys and Evans, p. 342). Among them is one Amlawdd, or Amlodd, who in Kulhwch and Olwen is the father of Goleuddydd, the mother of Kulhwch, “a boy of gentle birth and cousin unto Arthur.” In a poem ascribed to Taliesin the deity even is called gwledig—“gwledig nef a phob tud,” “ruler of heaven and of every land.”
[20] Viz., to the tale, included in Lady C. Guest’s Mabinogion, called ‘The Dream of Maxen Wledig.’ The glorification of Maxen, or Maximus, in Welsh tradition suggests many points of analogy with the story of Arthur.
[21] Lloyd, Hist. of Wales, Vol. I. p. 100.
[22] See the opening words of ‘The Lady of the Fountain,’ “Yr amherawdyr Arthur oedd yng Kaer Llion ar Wysc.” See also The Dream of Rhonabwy, passim.
[23] Arthurian Legend, p. 7. See also The Welsh People (Rhys and Jones), pp. 105 sqq.
[24] The most elaborate and ingenious expositions of this theory will be found in Skene’s Four Ancient Books of Wales, Vol. I. Chap. 4, and Stuart-Glennie’s Arthurian Localities in ‘Merlin’ (Early Eng. Text Soc., 1869).
[25] “Mons Badonicus” is still unidentified. Guest, in his Origines Celticæ (ii. 187-189) makes a brave attempt to prove that it was Badbury in Dorset.
[26] Hist. Reg. Brit., Bk. IX. Ch. 4.