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- ↑ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The New Companion to the Literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1 . Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ↑ Dillwyn Miles (1992). The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain. Gwasg Dinefwr Press. ISBN 978-0-9519926-0-9 . Retrieved 24 October 2012.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Edeyrn, Davod Aur". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
