Rhydderch Hael

Rhydderch Hael [' ŗəðerx hail ], also Riderch I. of Old Clut (* 580, † to 614), is the name of a historic Prince of Alt Clut ( a region in what is now Strathclyde in Scotland). This Britannic UK was facing the post-Roman period in the valley of the River Clyde.

History and Mythology

Riderch I was one of the most famous kings in the Hen Ogledd ( the "Old North" ), the britonisch speaking area of present-day southern Scotland and northern England. He is called in some medieval works in Welsh and Latin, for the first time at the Amra Choluim Chille ( " Praise Colum Cille "). His father before him and the ruling king was probably Tutagual of Alt Clut, which is mentioned in Aelred of Rievaulx 'Vita Sancti Niniani. Riderchs family also occurs in Y Gododdin and the Trioedd Ynys Prydein ( " The Triads of the Island of Britain "). Here Rhydderch Hael one who is called " three most generous men in Britain '. In a poem fragment his sword Dyrnwyn ( "with the white handle " ) is considered one of the legendary " thirteen treasures of the Island of Britain ". If it uses a noble -born man, his blade into a flame.

He led a war against the Principality of Gwynedd together with other rulers of the Hen Ogledd. In the Historia Brittonum ( " History of the Britons " ) is reported that he fought along with three other kings, including Urien Rheged and of Cynon fab Clydno against the Angles, who were resident in Northumbria. Also in the Trioedd Ynys Prydein Rhydderchs defeat in the war against the Gaelic Kingdom of Dalriada and the subsequent retaliation is known as one of the " three lost most rampant ravages of the Island of Britain ".

After the Englynion y Beddeu ( " The verses of the tombs " ) located his grave in Abererch on the Lleyn Peninsula (Pen Llŷn ) in North West Wales, another tomb is Scotland shown in Renfrewshire.

Not for Rhydderch Hael, but for Rhydderch from Ieuan Llwyd (c. 1325-1400 ) from the Ceredigion Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch ( "The White Book of Rhydderch " ) was copied.

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