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as the ninth king of (all) Britain, his father Lleon Q-awr (Lleon, 

 the Mighty or Gigantic,) being the eighth, and his grandfather 

 Brut Darianlas (Brutus Blueshield) the seventh. He, with 

 Khun, is named by Lewis Glyn Cothi, a bard of the fifteenth 

 century, in an ode to Hywel ab Henri, thus 



" Da ydyw dy ryw, a da y w dy dras ; 

 Dy ran olau oedd Vrutus Darianlas : 

 Rhan o Doneuan, hyd yn Euas dud ; 

 Rhan Beli, drwy'r brud, a Rhun Baladr Bras." 

 In English 



" Good is thy lineage, and good thy kindred ; 

 Thy utmost line was that of Brutus Darianlas, 

 The line of Doneuan, to the region of Euas ; 

 The line of Beli, by the annals, and Hhun Baladr Eras." 



Khun, which means lavish (of gifts ; magnificent), was the name 

 of at least two later Princes, one of them of the time of Lly warch 

 Hen, the Prince bard of the 6th century (A.D. 530), who, i* 

 seems, had helped him in war. He says in his elegy on Urien 

 Eeged 



" Have I not given to Rhun, the praised leader, 

 A cantrev, and a hundred kine ?" 



A cantrev being a political Hundred (of homesteads), a proof, 

 among others, that Britain was marked out into Hundreds ere 

 the Saxons came hither. This bit of history was written in the 

 Brut Arthur (pronounced Breet Artheer) from earlier history, 

 after Saxons had settled at Caer Paladr, as it says' 'which is 

 now called Septon " a form of the name Shafton ; but it 

 implies that it was not called so in the earlier time when Khun 

 built it. The guesses at the names of the "Caer Paladr" and 

 of the king, by some old writers, and the shapes in which they 

 have given them, are very queer, and I know not whence they 

 were first taken. Some call the king Rhudubrasius or Cicultr, 

 and Holingshed gives his name as Lud, or Lud Hudilras, son of 

 Leil, the eighth king. These names cannot be in their true 

 Welsh shapes, whetever they may be. Some write the British 

 name of Shaftesbury as Palladur or Pall-a-dour for "Pal-a-dwr," 

 which they read " the Waters of Pallas," on the understanding 



