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By The Rev. W. BARNES. 



Britisli legend of Caer Paladr or Shaftesbury is given 

 in a Welsh Brut (chronicle), the "Brut ab Arthur/? 

 thus " Ac wedi Lleon daeth Ehun Baladr Bras, ci 

 vab, ac eve adeilad Gastell Mynydd Paladr; a elwir yn awr 

 Caer Sefton. Ac yna, tra adeilyt y gaer honno, y bu eryr yn 

 prophwydaw; ac yn dywedyd daroganau yr ynys hon." In 

 English "And after (King) Lleon came Ehun, of the Stout 

 Spear, his son, and he built the castle of Mount Paladr, which 

 is now called Caer Sefton (put for Shafton) ; and there, while 

 he was building this stronghold, there was an Eryr (eagle ?) that 

 prophesied (or foreboded), and gave some prophecies about this 

 island." Eagle's prophecy is given in the Myvrian Archseology 

 vol. ii., pp. 124126. In PoweU's " History of Cambria " it is 

 said "Concerning the words of Eryr at the building of Caer 

 Septon, in Mount Paladour, in the yeare after the creation of 

 the world, 3,048, some think that an eagle did then speake and 

 prophesie ; others are of opinion that it was a Brytaine named 

 Aquila (Eryr in British) that prophesied of these things, and of 

 the recoverie of the whole ile againe by the Britaines," and Eryr 

 (eagle) is very likely to have been the name of a man, as it often 

 was with the bards an epithet of a warrior. Ehun is reckoned 



