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.

Hirwaun moor, 4 miles to the north west of Aberdare, was according to tradition the scene of a battle at which Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Dyfed, was defeated by the allied forces of the Norman Robert Fitzhamon and Iestyn ap Gwrgant, the last Welsh prince of Glamorgan.

* Cerdd Dant ( string music ) or Canu Penillion ( verse singing ) is the art of vocal improvisation over a given melody in Welsh musical tradition.

Renowned Arthurian scholar Ernst Brugger suggested that it was a corruption of Camlann, the site of Arthur's final battle in Welsh tradition.

Geoffrey's description in turn drew on an already established tradition in Welsh oral tradition of the grandeur of Arthur's court.

* Welsh fiddling ( Welsh Ffidil ; see Ar Log ), a recently revived tradition.

It has been established by tradition over a hundred years ; and although in common with other British anthems, it has not been established as such by law, it has been used in the context of a national anthem at official governmental ceremonies including the opening of the Welsh Assembly and at receptions of the British monarchy.

It established itself as part of Welsh tradition and became known as the Welsh harp ( telyn deires, " three-row harp ").

The 9th-century Historia Brittonum also refers to this tale, with the boar there named Troy ( n ) t. Finally, Arthur is mentioned numerous times in the Welsh Triads, a collection of short summaries of Welsh tradition and legend which are classified into groups of three linked characters or episodes in order to assist recall.

" Finally, Geoffrey borrowed many of the names for Arthur's possessions, close family and companions from the pre-Galfridian Welsh tradition, including Kaius ( Cei ), Beduerus ( Bedwyr ), Guenhuuara ( Gwenhwyfar ), Uther ( Uthyr ) and perhaps also Caliburnus ( Caledfwlch ), the latter becoming Excalibur in subsequent Arthurian tales.

Chrétien's work even appears to feed back into Welsh Arthurian literature, with the result that the romance Arthur began to replace the heroic, active Arthur in Welsh literary tradition.

So, for example, the 16th-century humanist scholar Polydore Vergil famously rejected the claim that Arthur was the ruler of a post-Roman empire, found throughout the post-Galfridian medieval " chronicle tradition ", to the horror of Welsh and English antiquarians.

The Minoan Brotherhood was founded in 1977 in New York by Edmund Buczynski, an elder in the Gardnerian, WICA and New York Welsh Traditions, in order to create a Craft tradition for gay and bisexual men — one that would celebrate and explore the distinctive mysteries unique to men who love men.

In fact, the fame of Arthur's entourage became so prominent in Welsh tradition that in the later additions to the Welsh Triads, the formula " Arthur's Court " in the titles of the triads began to supersede the older " Island of Britain " formula.

Caratacus ' memory may have been preserved in medieval Welsh tradition.

An 18th century tradition, popularised by the Welsh antiquarian and forger Iolo Morganwg, credits Caradog, on his return from imprisonment in Rome, with the introduction of Christianity to Britain.

A Welsh tradition in the Brut y Tywysogion claimed that in 890: " he men of Strathclyde, those that refused to unite with the English, had to depart from their country and go into Gwynedd.

Very little historical information about Dark Age Welsh court tradition survives, but the Middle Welsh material came to be the nucleus of the Matter of Britain and Arthurian legend as they developed from the 13th century.

He was also a military leader, and in 1046 he led an unsuccessful expedition against the Welsh.

The name is related to the modern Welsh word gof ( blacksmith ), and so is also associated with the Welsh smith Gofannon from folklore.

Abergavenny was celebrated for the production of Welsh flannel, and also for the manufacture, whilst the fashion prevailed, of goats ' hair periwigs.

It is also home to the Abergavenny Welsh society, Cymreigyddion y Fenni, and the local Abergavenny Eisteddfod.

* British language ( Celtic ), also known as Brythonic, the ancient Celtic language once spoken in Britain, ancestral to Welsh, Cornish and Breton

It is also possible that the term derives from the Welsh Brit Gweldig, the term for a ruler of Britain.

Ó hÓgáin proposes that this term was also used in Scottish Gaelic and Welsh.

Similar creatures are also found in Welsh, Norse and American folklore, such as aos sí (" tumulus folk ").

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.

There are also a substantial number of Welsh speakers in the Patagonia area of Argentina.

In the Welsh language who's origins, like Cornish is from the ancient British or Brythonic language line, ' Cist ' is also used for such ancient graves, but in modern use, can also mean a chest, a coffer, a box, or even the boot / trunk of a car.

Enya has also sung songs written entirely or partially in Welsh, Spanish, French, and even languages created by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Edinburgh has also become associated with the crime novels of Ian Rankin, and the work of Irvine Welsh, whose novels are mostly set in the city and are often written in colloquial Scots.

By the end of her life Elizabeth was also reputed to speak Welsh, Cornish, Scottish and Irish in addition to English.

The ð is also used by some in written Welsh to represent the letter ' dd ' ( the voiced dental fricative ).

The bushy tail is also the source of the word for fox in Welsh: llwynog, from llwyn, " bush, grove ".

Hen wlad fy nhadau was also one of the first Welsh-language songs recorded when Madge Breese sang it on 11 March 1899, for the Gramophone Company, as part of the first recording in the Welsh language.

In 1978 as part of their album, also called Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, Geraint Jarman a ' r Cynganeddwyr recorded a version of the Welsh national anthem using electric guitars, inspired by Jimi Hendrix's rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner.

Geoffrey provides prehistoric London with a rich array of legendary kings, such as King Lud ( see also Lludd, from Welsh Mythology ) who, he claims, renamed the town CaerLudein, from which London was derived, and was buried at Ludgate.

In this neopagan concept, the god is also referred to as Bran, a Welsh mythological figure, Wayland, the smith in Germanic mythology, and Herne, a horned figure from English folklore.

Classical Latin Arcturus would also have become Art ( h ) ur when borrowed into Welsh, and its brightness and position in the sky led people to regard it as the " guardian of the bear " ( which is the meaning of the name in Ancient Greek ) and the " leader " of the other stars in Boötes.

John took a close interest in Wales and knew the country well, visiting every year between 1204 and 1211 and marrying his illegitimate daughter, Joan, to the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great.

Welsh scholar William John Gruffydd noted that 15th-and 16th-century poets apparently knew an alternate tradition in which Arianrhod actually became Math's footholder.

He also knew Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ; the Historia Brittonum, a Welsh source ; the Life of Alcuin ; and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Early Welsh tradition knew of a Coel Hen ( Coel the Old ), a leader in Roman or Sub-Roman Britain and the progenitor of several kingly lines in the Hen Ogledd (" the Old North "), the Brythonic-speaking part of northern England and southern Scotland.

Welsh mariners knew it as canwyll yr ysbryd (" spirit-candles ") or canwyll yr ysbryd glân (" candles of the Holy Ghost "), or the " candles of St. David ".

Just two years later his father arranged a trip to Jan Churchill's Welsh Forest Rally School near Newtown, Powys where Burns drove a Ford Escort for the day, and from that moment on he knew what he wanted to do.

Geoffrey evidently knew the Dumnonian genealogy in essentially this form, though he is the first to identify Gildas ' Constantine as a son of Cador, known in Welsh tradition as Cadwy mab Geraint.

When friends who knew him from his gym work, and seeing him struggle to pay for a decent meal, asked why he didn't take up the nightly paid ' private ' fights, Welsh initially refused.

Davies denied having received the money, and knew nothing of the claim until meeting Welsh in Taff Street in June, who then threatened to ' knock him through a window if he didn't pay the money '.

He needed someone to manage his projects, and although there were several capable candidates at Boston, he knew he needed someone with Welsh language skills and a Welsh temperament.

The Welsh, most of whom knew not a word of English, naturally continued to use cwmwd and still do so today.