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Elen ( known in Welsh tradition as Elen Luyddog ( Helen of the Hosts ); also known as Saint Helen of Caernarfon ) was a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales who is remembered as a saint.
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The Morgan name is traced to Carmarthen, Wales, and the first known Morgan family ancestral is Bleddri, third son of Demetae chieftain Cadivor-fawr and his wife Elen.
Hywel probably already had control over the neighboring kingdom of Dyfed by that time ; there are no known kings of Dyfed following the death of Llywarch ap Hyfaidd in 904, and Hywel is known to have been married to Llywarch's daughter, Elen.
Elen and Welsh
Legendary versions of Maximus ' career in which he marries the Welsh princess Elen may have been in popular circulation in Welsh speaking areas from an early point.
Since many characters in these tales are thought to be Christianized reflections of older deities ( see: Welsh mythology ), it has been suggested that Elen reflects ( along with Rhiannon, etc.
Maximus had married Elen, a Welsh noblewoman, and they had three sons.
He is remembered as a King of the Britons and the father of Elen Luyddog and Conan Meriadoc in sources such as the Welsh prose tale The Dream of Macsen and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae.
Elen and Luyddog
She is remembered for having Macsen build roads across her country so that the soldiers could more easily defend it from attackers, thus earning her the name Elen Luyddog ( Elen of the Hosts ).
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Conan's cousin or sister Elen Luyddog is said to have been Maxsen Wledic's wife.
In The Dream, Conan is the son, rather than nephew, of Eudaf ( Geoffrey's Octavius ), and the brother of Elen Luyddog.
* Saint Helen of Carnarvon ( Elen Luyddog, Helen of Caernarfon ), Princess, a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales, and wife of Emperor Magnus Clemens Maximus ( 383-388 )
Elen and Helen
Lundy has evidence of visitation or occupation from the Neolithic period onward, with Mesolithic flintwork, Bronze Age burial mounds, four inscribed gravestones from the early medieval period, and an early medieval monastery ( possibly dedicated to St Elen or St Helen ).
The maiden, whose name is Helen or Elen, accepts and loves him.
* Celtnet: Nemeton: Celtic Gods: The Cymric Heroine, Elen Lluyddog ( Helen of the Hosts )
The maiden, whose name is Helen or Elen Llwyddawc, accepts and loves him.
The maiden, whose name is Helen or Elen, accepts and loves him.
Elen and also
Ann Elen was also a biathlete.
Elen and was
Glyndŵr was a descendant of the Princes of Powys from his father Gruffydd Fychan II, hereditary Tywysog of Powys Fadog and Lord of Glyndyfrdwy, and of those of Deheubarth through his mother Elen ferch Tomas ap Llywelyn.
Elen was mother of five, including a boy named Cystennin ( or Custennin or Constantine ).
Phillips claims that the name actually given to the town was Caer Elen, in honour of his wife ( the name later changing to Caer Alun ).
He learns, from a wise Bard named Cairpre, that Branwen really was his mother, but her real name is Elen.
The most popular vote was for Hani Naji Atallah Abdel Masieh of United Beit Sahour with 2, 690 votes, followed by Elen Michael Saliba Qsais of Sons of Bethlehem with 2, 280 votes.
Elen and Wales
* Elen ferch Llywelyn ( c. 1207 – 1253 ), daughter by Joan, Princess of Wales.
Many other Roman roads in Wales bear her name ( e. g. Llwybr Elen ) and she is thus acknowledged as the patron saint of British roadbuilders and the protectress of travellers.
Elen and is
Because Elen is found a virgin, Macsen gives her father sovereignty over the island of Britain and orders three castles built for his bride.
In the chapel of St. Mary's Church, there is the alabaster tomb of Sir Thomas Vaughan of nearby Hergest Court, slain at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and his wife, Elen Gethin.
Sonja Elen Kisa's Toki Pona is based on minimalistic simplicity, incorporating elements of Taoism.
Because Elen is found a virgin, Macsen gives her father sovereignty over the island of Britain and orders three castles built for his bride.
:" Gwenllian is a second Elen daughter of Eudaf "
Because Elen is found a virgin, Macsen gives her father sovereignty over the island of Britain and orders three castles built for his bride.
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His father, Gruffydd Fychan II, hereditary Tywysog of Powys Fadog and Lord of Glyndyfrdwy, died some time before 1370 leaving Glyndŵr's mother Elen ferch Tomas ap Llywelyn of Deheubarth a widow and Owain a young man of maybe 16 years at most.
He found a loyal ally in Ranulph, Earl of Chester, whose nephew and heir, John the Scot, married Llywelyn's daughter Elen in about 1222.
* " If It Wasn't For The ' Ouses In Between " ( w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn )-Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
* " It's A Great Big Shame " ( w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn )-Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
Several music hall entertainers such as Marie Dainton, Marie Lloyd, Arthur Roberts, Joe Elvin and Gus Elen were strong advocates of the strike, though they themselves earned enough not to be concerned personally in a material sense.
*" If It Wasn't For The ' Ouses In Between " ( George Le Brunn ; Edgar Bateman ) sung by Gus Elen.
Traffic on the rest of the canal continued to decline, and when a breach occurred at Cilfynydd in 1915, the company decided not to invest in its repair, but instead built a wooden flume around the breach, so that water from the Elen Deg feeder could still reach the rest of the canal.
* 2003-Michael D. Sorenson, Elen Oneal, Jaime García-Moreno and David P. Mindell discuss the enigmatic Hoatzin without reaching a conclusion in a paper entitled " More Taxa, More Characters: The Hoatzin Problem Is Still Unresolved.
known and Welsh
This story was later retold with more detail by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, conflating the personage of Ambrosius with the Welsh tradition of Merlin the visionary, known for oracular utterances that foretold the coming victories of the native Celtic inhabitants of Britain over the Saxons and the Normans.
In Chubut, the Welsh community is known for its teahouses, offering scones and torta galesa, which is rather like torta negra.
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE ( born 31 December 1937 ), best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh | deadurl = no
* British language ( Celtic ), also known as Brythonic, the ancient Celtic language once spoken in Britain, ancestral to Welsh, Cornish and Breton
In Welsh folklore, a similar creature is known as the Hag of the mist.
Boudica (; alternative spelling: Boudicca ), also known as Boadicea and known in Welsh as Buddug ( d. AD 60 or 61 ) was queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.
Islanders ' accents retain elements passed down from English, Scottish, and Welsh settlers ( among others ) in a language variety known as Cayman Creole.
Dolmens are known by a variety of names in other languages including dolmain ( Irish ), cromlech ( Welsh ), anta ( Portuguese and Galician ), Hünengrab / Hünenbett ( German ), Adamra ( Abkhazian ), Ispun ( Circassian ), Hunebed ( Dutch ), dysse ( Danish and Norwegian ), dös ( Swedish ), and goindol ( Korean ).
In Welsh legend, Arthur's sword is known as Caledfwlch.
It established itself as part of Welsh tradition and became known as the Welsh harp ( telyn deires, " three-row harp ").
It has been claimed, by commentators citing the 1920s folklorist Gwenith Gwynn ( a. k. a. W. Rhys Jones ), that " broom-stick weddings " were first known in Wales, originating either among the Welsh people themselves or among Romani living in Wales.
Sullivan III, however, argued that the custom originated among the Welsh people themselves, since the custom was known in Wales prior to the 1700s when he believed Gypsies arrived there.
One of the most famous Welsh poetic references to Arthur comes in the collection of heroic death-songs known as Y Gododdin ( The Gododdin ), attributed to the 6th-century poet Aneirin.
The National Stadium, which was also known as the Welsh National Rugby Ground, was designed by Osborne V Webb & Partners and built by G A Williamson & Associates of Porthcawl and Andrew Scott & Company of Port Talbot.
The Celticist A. O. H. Jarman suggests the Welsh name () was derived from the toponym Caerfyrddin, the Welsh name for the town known in English as Carmarthen.
Owain married Margaret Hanmer, also known by her Welsh name Marred ferch Dafydd, daughter of Sir David Hanmer of Hanmer, early in his life.
While First-past-the-post voting is commonly found in countries based on the British parliamentary system, and in Westminster elections in the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh National Assembly use a form of PR known as the mixed member system, after New Zealand adopted it in 1993.
" Long before Geoffrey, Arthur's court was well known to Welsh storytellers ; in the romance Culhwch and Olwen, written around 1100, the protagonist Culhwch invokes the names of 225 individuals affiliated with Arthur.
He is commonly known as The Lord Rhys, in Welsh Yr Arglwydd Rhys, but this title may not have been used in his lifetime.
' ' Do the little things in life ' (' Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd ') is today a very well known phrase in Welsh.
* Nantwich Bridge, formerly known as Welsh Bridge, in Nantwich, Cheshire, England
* Cyngen of Powys makes the first known pilgrimage to Rome of a Welsh ruler.
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