Kymry

Welsh, the, speak a language derived from that of the Britons, 7; origin of their name, 31; adopt the name Kymry, 37; defeated by Æthelfrith near Chester, 43; split up into three divisions, _ib.

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

There can be little doubt that the conclusion of Thomas Stephens, in the "Literature of the Kymry," is correct -- that "Geoffrey was less a translator than an original author."

Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures 1904

He perhaps never saw Stephens '"Literature of the Kymry."

George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897

The Literature of the Kymry: being a critical essay on the history of the Language and Literature of Wales during the twelfth and two succeeding centuries.

The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887

A common danger from the English fused them together, and as a sign of the wearing out of old distinctions, they took the name of Kymry, or Comrades, the name by which the Welsh are known amongst one another to this day, and which is also preserved in the name of Cumberland, though the Celtic language is no longer spoken there.

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

Kymry, the, origin of the name, 37; share in the defeat of the Scots at Degsastan, 42; are defeated by Æthelfrith near Chester, 43; geographical dismemberment of, _ib.

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

The Kymry had brought with them the 2,000 monks of their great monastery

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

The northern Kymry of Strathclyde were no longer formidable, and they grew less formidable as years passed on.

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

The southern Kymry of Wales were too weak to threaten

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

Æthelfrith had to do with the Kymry, whose territories stretched from the Bristol Channel to the Clyde, and who held an outlying wedge of land then known as Loidis and Elmet, which now together form the West

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865