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References
- 1 2 National Library of Wales, Welsh Classical Dictionary, page 615
- ↑ Monarchie Nobelesse website, Bretons
- ↑ Sacred Texts website Histories of the Kings of Britain (Book II), by Geoffry of Monmouth, tr. by Sebastian Evans (1904)
