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- ↑ Mike Campbell: "Gwenda". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2013-01-02.
- ↑ "List of Welsh Forenames (A-M)". The “Cymru-Catalonia” (Wales-Catalonia) Website. 2006-11-27. Retrieved 2013-01-09.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- 1 2 Dunkling, Leslie; Gosling, William (1983), The Facts on File Dictionary of First Names , New York: Facts on File Publications, p. 111, ISBN 0-87196-274-8
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