Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ancient Celtic Briton. No longer in scholarly use.
- noun A member of a Brittonic-speaking people. No longer in scholarly use.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ethnography, a Briton of Wales, Cornwall, or ancient Cambria, as distinct from a Gadhelic Celt.
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- noun A (historical)
Briton : a member of thatpeople that spokeBrythonic languages.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Brython were the third “social tribe of the Isle of Britain,” who “came from the land of Llydaw, and were descended from the primitive tribe of the Cymry,” (Triad 5, third series.)
Y Gododin A Poem of the Battle of Cattraeth Aneurin 1836
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The next Fairy tale that I shall give akin to the preceding stories is to be found in _Y Brython_, vol. iii., pp. 459-60.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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The tale is taken from _Y Brython_, vol. v., p. 192.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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_Brython_, which he regards as the same tale as that given by Williams, and he says that he heard it scores of times when he was a lad.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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But to return to Wales, a poet in _Y Brython_, vol. iii, p. 103, thus sings: --
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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The writer in _Y Brython_, speaking of _Ffinant_, says that this farm is about a mile from Trefeglwys, on the north side of the road leading to Newtown.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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Pict, Scot, Goidel, Brython, Dane, and Angle, and we have seen how the country came to be, in some sense, united under a single monarch.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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In the _Brython_ the tale is called: "Y Tylwyth Teg a Mab Llech y Derwydd," and this title I will retain, merely translating it.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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The history of the Fairy Stray Cow appears in _Y Brython_, vol. iii., pp. 183-4.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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It appears in the _Brython_, vol. ix., p. 251, and Professor Rhys has rendered it into English in _Y Cymmrodor_, vol. ix., p. 70.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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