Prydain

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• comparison: Prydain's Three Islands and Prydain's Three outpost Islands; and the substantial antiquity of the designation ' the Islands of Prydain,' is proved by its virtual identity with that used by ancient Gre (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Prydain's Three Islands and Prydain's Three outpost Islands; and the substantial antiquity of the designation ' the Islands of Prydain,' is proved by its virtual identity with that used by ancient Greek authors like Ptolemy, who calls both Britain and Ireland a v^(ros ITpeTaj'iKT}, where Pretanic and Prydain are closely related words."

• attestation: Now our Prydain had in medieval Welsh the two forms Prydein and Prydyn (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Now our Prydain had in medieval Welsh the two forms Prydein and Prydyn."

• attestation: That weapon in his hand is one of the swords of the ancient kings of Prydain (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "That weapon in his hand is one of the swords of the ancient kings of Prydain."

• attestation: He conquered them and shaved off their beards '; but when the other kings of Prydain, twentyeight in number, heard of it, they collected all their armies together to avenge themselves on Rhita for the (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "He conquered them and shaved off their beards '; but when the other kings of Prydain, twentyeight in number, heard of it, they collected all their armies together to avenge themselves on Rhita for the disgrace to which he had subjected the other two."