492 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



How this place took the name of Dol- 

 forwyn, or the meadow of the 'virgin, cannot 

 with certainty be known ; circumftances 

 however would lead one to fufpe<5t, that it 

 had fome allufion to the ftory of Habren 

 or Abren, the daughter of Locrinus, fon 

 of Brutus, the firil king of Britain, by 

 Effyllt, a daughter of the king of Ger- 

 many, whom he had taken captive in his 

 wars againft Humyr, the king of the Huns. 

 Previous to his taking this female he had 

 efpoufed himfelf to Guendolena, a daughter 

 of Corineus, a hero who had entered the 

 Ifland, at the firft fettling, with Brutus; 

 and the chieftain, fearing this might put off 

 the marriage, threatened to come againft 

 him with a powerful army, and force him to 

 keep his former promife. Locrinus was 

 therefore compelled to conceal Eflyllt in a 

 cavern, declaring that he had fent her out 

 of the kingdom, and to marry Guendolena. 

 Upon the death of Corineus, which appears 



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