Note 3 — Chapter I · The Early History—Before A. D. 843.

Nen. Geneal.—Llywarch, Marwnad Urien and Taliesin, quoted by Carte, vol. i. p. 209, and by Turner, Ang. Sax., bk. 2, c. 4. A translation of the latter poem will be found in Camb. Reg. v. 3, p. 433, fully justifying the regrets of Turner “that any historical poem should be translated into verse.” A tract of hill and moor, stretching from Derbyshire into Scotland, is often known in the early chroniclers as “Desertum,” the waste or desert. The battle in which Ida fell was probably the famous “battle of Badon,” which, according to Taliesin, “avenged the blood of the lords of the north,” and Urien was, I suspect, the “good and valiant uncle,” for opposing whom Gildas blames Maelgwn Gwynnedd.