Llywarch Hen

Llywarch Hen [' ɬɘwarx he ː m] (Welsh " Llywarch the old man ") is the name of a legendary figure from the Hen Ogledd ( "Old North" ) in the Britannic mythology. He will, however (about 570-613 ), also known as real king of South Rheged.

Mythology

Llywarch Hen is mentioned as a cousin of King Urien Rheged by, said to have lived at the end of the 6th century in Northern Britain. Later traditions combine his life, however, with North Wales. In a poem cycle of Llyfr Coch Hergest ( " Red Book of Hergest " ) from the 9-10. Century describes his fate and that of his sons. After the death Uriens he flees with his head, and is pursued by the enemies. He must eventually go into exile, where he spent his final years as Hofbarde by Powys (according to another version Gwynedd ).

The poem Cân y Henwr ( "Song of the old man " ) tells how the grown old Llywarch Hen laments the death of his 24 sons, all of which prompts him to going into battle, and there fell in the defense of her father. The dark, abstruse poem may have been the aggregated into verse culmination of a prose narrative, knowledge of which one could assume at the then listeners apparently.

Some literary historians will Lywarch Hen the Cynfeirdd, the "old / Early Bard", added account.

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