Welsh Journals

In other words, we have before us what may not be a table of direct blood-descent at all, but only of succession:- before Cuneda, Ætern Ætern, Patern 'pesrut' Patern, Tacit and so on. When this is realized, we are at once able to clear away two great apparent discrepancies between this list and early twelfth century authorities. (1) Geoffrey of Monmouth (xii, 6) puts into the mouth of king Cadwallon an extremely specific statement of his relationship to the king of Brittany, which I tabulate thus: Mailcun Ennianus Run Beli d. marries Hoel, k. of Brittany lacob Alanus Catman Salomo Cadwallo According to our doctored Harleian table, Beli was the son, not of Enniaun, but of Run. Strike out the inter- polated map's, restore the original guor's, and we see that guor Beli Run guor Run Mailcun meant not that Run was father of Beli, but that he preceded him as head of the house of Gwynedd. Why mutation both of medial b and medial m, and Aballac, Amalech, are merely archaic spellings of Afallach: no doubt the b form is here more correct than the m form. When this is recognized, and the similarity noticed between the short-necked capital 6 and an 0, it will at once appear that Oumun and Dubun are also doublets. In Amguoloyt the I is a scribe's misreading of the conjunct form of r- i.e., l-as a capital L. This suggests that the tables are copied directly or indirectly from an exemplar written in capitals.