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- ↑ Welsh: ...Rhodri mawr a Gwriad ei frawd....
- ↑ Archæologia Cambrensis: The Chronicle of the Princes, p. 15. Accessed 26 Feb 2013.
- ↑ Jones, Thomas. Brenhinedd y Saesson: or, The King of the Saxons: BM Cotton MS Cleopatra B v, and The Black book of Basingwerk, NLW MS. 7006 , p. 25. Univ. of Wales Press, 1971. Accessed 26 Feb 2013.
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