Oswald, and engaged him. On the spot called Bwrne, Penda met him and slew him. "And after Oswald was slain, and many thousands of his men with him; his brother Oswy of the White Brow became king in his stead. And he gave much gold and silver to Cadwallawn." "There is a confusion in the above account which needs explanation. It was Edwin, the predecessor of St. Oswald in the kingdom of Northumbria, who was defeated and slain, together with his two sons, Offrid and Eadfrid, by the joint forces of Penda and Cadwallawn at Hethfelth (Hatfield Chase) in Yorkshire, according to the other Chroniclers, both British and Saxon, Nennius and Annales Cambria excepted, who say it was at Meigen, or Meiceren, in Powysland. After the deaths of Osric and Eaufrid, who succeeded, and were slain by Cadwallawn, Oswald collected an army, and met Penda and Cadwallawn at Denisesburn, near the Roman wall from Tyne to Solway, where the former gained a complete victory, and Cadwallawn was left dead upon the field, or fled, as supposed by Mr. Skene, with Penda into Wales. Oswald united Penda's dominion of Mercia to his own, but the two allied monarchs, his opponents, having raised another army, met Oswald at Maserfelth, at or in the neighbourhood of Oswestry, where the latter was slain. In the account here taken from Geoffry of Monmouth, the real facts appear to have been veiled with the view to conceal the disgrace suffered by their national hero Cadwallawn. The place called by him "Bwrne", may be Denisesburn, or perhaps the river Vernwy, near the confluence of which with the Havren or Severn, at a spot called Codoy, (probably the modern Coedway), Oswald is stated by Nennius to have met with his death. (See the whole subject treated in "Where did St. Oswald die ?" reprinted from the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society, by Woodall and Venables.1) SELYF SARFF CADAU, Succeeded his father King Cynan 1 Howel W. Lloyd, Esq., M.A. Garwyn as King of Powys. He is celebrated in the Triads with Avaon, the son of Taliesin, and Gwallawg ab Lleenawg, a Prince of the Vale of Shrewsbury, as one of the three "Aerfeddawg", or grave slaughterers of the Isle of Britain, because they avenged their wrongs from their graves. He was the father of MAEL MYNAN, the father of BELI, the father of GUOILLAWG or GWALLAWG, who was the father of, Who ELISEG AB GWALLAWG, King of Teyrnllwg or Powys, who appears from the inscription on his monument, to have recovered his kingdom of Powys, out of the hands of the English, after the death of Cadell by violence. Cadell was does not appear. In 765 the Cymry devastated Mercia, in the time of Offa, who commenced his reign in 758. The Cymry defeated the Saxons, and spoiled them sorely, on which account, Offa, King of Mercia, made the great dyke called Clawdd Offa, to divide Wales from Mercia, which still remains. Eliseg, King of Teyrnllwg, died or was slain in 773, and was succeeded by his son, BROCHMAEL or BROCHWAEL II. In 784 Mercia was again devastated by the Cymry, and Offa made a dyke a second time, nearer to him, leaving a province between Wye and Severn, where the tribe of Elystan Glodrudd is situate, where they became one of the five Royal Tribes of the Cymry. Brochmael was succeeded by his son, CADELL DEYRNLLWG II, King of Teyrullwg, now called Powys, according to the Llyfr Coch o Hergist; died in 809, and left two children, one a daughter named Nesta, and a son, CYNGEN II, who succeeded his father in 809. He erected the monumental cross which is still standing on the tumulus that covers the remains of his great grandfather, King Eliseg, in a valley at Maes yr Ychion, which from this cross is now called Pant y Groes, and gives its name to the adjoining monastery, De Valle Crucis. Cyngen afterwards resigned his crown, and went to Rome, where he was murdered by his own servants in 850. He had a son named Gruffydd, who was killed in 815. + ELITES ELITE 5 FILILY 540ILLO 42 CONCEPP Itaque propt por ELITES TEO ELITES + 1PTE ETTELITEZ GUI NEER 10 -ILE..moparchiam --αIL MαXIMyr brittapplat H |