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Domangart and Arthur

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

P. K. Johnstone
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Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 85 , March 1948 , pp. 45 - 46
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1948

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1 ‘Annals of Tigernach’, Revue Celtique, vol. 17, 135 Google Scholar.

2 op. cit., 138.

3 Guest, , Mubinogion (Everyman), p. 103 Google Scholar.

4 This worthy must in some degree represent the Brigantian deity, Vitiris, mentioned by Collingwood, and Myres, , Roman Britain, p. 268 Google Scholar. However, the spelling would seem to have been influenced by Gwythur (for Latin Victor). A more purely celtic version would be Gwydre, which appears in the Mahinogion as the name of a son of Arthur. If historical, this would suggest that while in ‘the North’ Arthur had acquired a Brigantian wife.

5 The Nodens of Lydney. Collingwood and Myres, 264–6.

6 Mabinogion, pp. 127–8.

7 Y Cymmrodor, IX, 141 ff.