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by the Cambrian bard Golyddan, which relates to “ the 
great armed confederacy of Britain,” “ Arymes Prydyn 
Vawr.” Of this there are extracts, with a translation, in 
Thiery’s Norman Conquest* In one place we read— 
“In Aber-Peryddon, the deputies of a Saxon king 
Even before there was a publie stipulation, stirred 
up slaughter. 
By arbitrary act, with violence, the deputies 
Demanded and proceeded to collect a tribute. 
The Cymri resolved they were not bound to pay:” etc. 
The poem is mainly devoted to the utterance of the 
indignation of the Cymri at the wrong thus inflieted. "This 
occurred at Aber-Peryddon; and if we take Peryddon to 
have corresponded to the ancient name of WVYsc-HELI, 
the site of this great conference and confliet would not be 
far from Purırton, which is near to the confluence of the 
estuary with the Severn sea, and may possibly have been 
the ABER-PERYDDON of the Welsh bard. I find it in the 
same old map, before referred to, in the form of PERITON. 
Passing by the Avon and the Ax, universally known as 
Celtic words, we come to the SEVERN and SEVERN SEA: 
the British name of which is deserving of notice from its 
connexion, indirectly, with the name which this county 
bears. What is now called the Bristol Channel bore the 
name of Mor EsyLrws6, and likewise Mor HAVREN. 
Havren is the Welsh form of Severn. f 
In a very ancient notice of the “ Principal Territories of 
Britain,” given in the Iolo MSS., p. 86, we find the Mor 
Havren, with Dyvnaint and Cerniw, given as the bounda- 
ries of Gwlad-yr-hav, a distriet corresponding with that of 
East Somerset. This naturally leads to the conclusion that 
* Bogue’s edition voll. Appendix 1. T See Note, p. 89. 
