Note 51 — Chapter IX · Place-name Stories

That the name Ỻydaw did on occasion refer to the region of Ỻyn Syfađon admits of indirect proof as follows:—The church of Ỻangorse on its banks is dedicated to a Saint Paulinus, after whom also is called Capel Peulin, in the upper course of the Towy, adjacent to the Cardiganshire parish of Ỻanđewi Brefi. Moreover, tradition makes Paulinus attend a synod in 519 at Ỻanđewi Brefi, where St. David distinguished himself by his preaching against Pelagianism. Paulinus was then an old man, and St. David had been one of his pupils at the Ty Gwyn, ‘Whitland,’ on the Taf, where Paulinus had established a religious house51; and some five miles up a tributary brook of the Taf is the church of Ỻandysilio, where an ancient inscription mentions a Paulinus. These two places, Whitland and Ỻandysilio, were probably in the cymwd of Peuliniog, which is called after a Paulinus, and through which we have just followed the hunt of Twrch Trwyth (p. 512). Now the inscription to which I have referred reads52, with ligatures:—