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  • I hastened after him, heading for the pub in Gladestry and the bosomy crest of Hergest Ridge beyond.

    Country diary: Hay-on-Wye 2011

  • The number of each one of the War-Bands was twenty-one hundred men--Red Book of Hergest, available online

    Archive 2010-03-01 Carla 2010

  • The number of each one of the War-Bands was twenty-one hundred men--Red Book of Hergest, available online

    Early medieval armies: numbers Carla 2010

  • The number of each one of the War-Bands was twenty-one hundred men--Red Book of Hergest, available online

    The battle of Arfderydd or Arthuret Carla 2010

  • The number of each one of the War-Bands was twenty-one hundred men--Red Book of Hergest, available online

    The battle of Arfderydd or Arthuret Carla 2010

  • The number of each one of the War-Bands was twenty-one hundred men--Red Book of Hergest, available online

    Archive 2010-06-01 Carla 2010

  • One of the poems attributed to Llywarch Hen in the Red Book of Hergest calls Powys “the paradise of Wales”, a name that has, not surprisingly, been adopted as the motto of the modern county which does not, by the way, follow the boundaries of its medieval counterpart.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Carla 2009

  • One of the poems attributed to Llywarch Hen in the Red Book of Hergest calls Powys “the paradise of Wales”, a name that has, not surprisingly, been adopted as the motto of the modern county which does not, by the way, follow the boundaries of its medieval counterpart.

    Powys: the early medieval kingdom Carla 2009

  • And thence he gan proceed right to Winchester; and there he caused to be worked halls and churches; -- there it seemed to him most pleasant; -- and afterwards he went to Ambresbury, to the burial-place of his dear friends, whom Hergest with knives had murdered there.

    Roman de Brut. English Layamon

  • Hergest_ belongs to the end of the fourteenth century, about 1380 to

    Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

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