2.30. 
and in like manner the ifle of Orkney was 
broken, fo that in that place there became 
many iflands; and other places in Alban, 
and in the land of Cymru became iflands. 
Obfervations. 
The feparation between Anglefey and 
the main Jand has the flrongelt appearance 
to corroborate the above record: thofe 
who are well acquainted with the Orkzeys, 
‘may perhaps be able to find fimilar evi- 
dence there. 
; ' TRIAD, UI. 
Tri GwRTHRYM ARDWwy Ynys Pryd- 
ain: Hu GaDARN, yn dwyn cenedyl y 
Cymryo Wuap xr Hav, a elwir De- 
FRoBaNi, hyd yn Yuys Pryvatn ; 
Prypais ap Azz Mawr, yn gyru 
ewlada vhaith ar Ynys Paypain; a 
Rurra Gawr, @& wnaeth izo ei- hun 
yegin o varvau breninoz, a wnaeth eve 
yn eillion, am eu gormes ac en divrawd. 
Trauflation. 
‘The three oppofing energies againtt ty- 
ranny of the ifle of Britain: Ha the 
Mighty, leading the nation of the Cymry 
from the Country of Summer, which 1s 
called Defrobani, to the Ifle of Britain; 
Prydain, fon of Acx the Great, bringing 
the Ife of Britazz under polity and law; 
and Khita the Gigantic, who made for him- 
felf a mantle of the beards of princes, 
whom he made fhaved ones, on account 
of their ufurpation and injuftice. 
Obfervations. ee 
. Defrabant is identified thus—* where 
Conftantinople now ftands’’ in a copy of 
the Triads by Caradoc 0 Lancarvan, in 
she twelfth century ; but upon what au- 
thority Ido not know, as the evidence is 
now loft ; however the weight of proba- 
bility is much in favour of the above re- 
eord. 
Rhita’s making the princes ‘¢ fhaved 
ones,” means, reducing.them to the cen- 
dition of fervants: Mezbionei/lion, or fhaved 
children, is the common term, in the 
Laws, for vafials. 
TRIAD IV. 
Tri Cynovyz Cenedyl y Cymry: 
Hu Gaparn, 4 wnaeth glud a gofgorz 
gyntav ar genedyl y Cymry; DyvnwaL 
Mof&LMuD, a wnaeth zofbarth gyntav ar 
gyvreithiau, a breiniau, a devodau gwlad 
a cenedyl; a THYDain Tap AWEN, 4 
wnaeth drevyn a dofbarth gyntav ar gova 
cadw cerz davawd, 2c ei ferthynafau ; ac 
‘oy drevyn héno y dycymygwyd breiniau, 
“a devodau dofbarthus ar veirz a barzon- 
iacth Ynys Prydain gyntav. 
Tranflation. 
The three PRIMARY ORGANIZERS of 
the nation of the Cymry: Hu the Mighty, 
Tranflation of the Triads of the Ancient Britons. 
(April x, 
who firtt. formed the nation of the Cyzry 
into a compaét body and fociety: Dyuzaual 
Maelmud, who firft made an arrangment of 
the laws, and the rights, and the cuftoms. 
of a political community and. nation; and 
Tydain Father of the Mufe, who firft made 
order and zrrangement. of the records and 
prefervation of vocal fong, and its requi- 
fites ; and out of that order were origi- 
nally invented the rights, and particular 
cuftoms. of the bards and bardic inftitution 
of the ifle of Britain. 
TRIAD V. 
Tri Cyn TEviGION Berrz Ynys Pryd- 
ain: PLennyz, ALAWN, a GwRON; 
fev. oezynt y rhai hyny @ zycymygafant y 
breiniau, ac y devodau, y, fyz ar veirz a 
barzoniaeth ; ac am hyny eu gelwir y tri 
cyntevigion. , Hagen yz oez cyn no hyny 
beirz a barzoniaeth; ac nid oez arnynt 
zofbarth drwyzedawg ; ac nid oez izynt 
na breiniau, na devodau, namyn 4 gaid o 
azwynder a fyberwyd, yn nawz gwiad a 
cenedyl, cyn noc amfer y tri hyn, -A rhai 
a zywedant, mai yn amler Prydain ab Aez 
Mawr y buant; ereill a zywedant mat 
yn amler Dyvnwal Moelmud ei vab ev y, 
buant, ac yn rhai o yr hen lyvrau y gelwir 
ev Dyvnvarth ab Prydam. | 
7 Tranflation, 
The three primitive Bards of the ifle of 
Britain,: Pleunyz, Alawa, and Garon 3 
that is, to fay, thefe were they who invent- 
ed the rights and. privileges, which regu- 
late the bards and the bardic inftitution 5 
and for that reafon they are called the 
three primary ones. . Neverthelefs there 
were bards and bardifm before that; but 
they were not under a liberal. regulation ; 
and there were to them nor rights, nor 
privileges, except what was obtained 
through civility and courtefy, under the — 
protection of the country and nation, be- 
fore the time of thefe three. .Some fay that 
they flourifhed in the time of Prydzin fon 
of Aex the Great; and others fay that they 
were in the time of Dyvawal Mcelmud 
his fon, and in fome of the ald books he 
is called Dywnvarth fon of Prydain. 
Obfervations. 
I am of opinion that Alawz is to be ~ 
identified with Olen, Olézus, Ailinus, or 
Linus, whom the Greek writers ftyle an 
Hyperborean. Olez the Hyperborean is 
faid to have been the firft prophet of Del- 
phi. Paufan. 1. 10.—Bao the female hie- 
rophant fings’of Olen, as the inventor of 
verfe, and the moft ancient prieft of Phoe- — 
bus. 
The concluding part of the Triad re-_ 
lating to the period when the bards men- — 
tioned therein flourifhed, has every ap- 
7 pearance 
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