With regard to Old Oswestry being the place "where King Arthur's Guinevere was born", this is an intriguing claim...! Thomas Pennant, an >
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> 18thC Welsh antiquarian, said that Old Oswestry was once known as 'Caer Ogyrfan', Ogrfan Gawr ('the Giant') being Gwenhwyfar/Guinevere's >
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> father in medieval Welsh tradition... However, this was by no means the only place to be claimed as his legendary castle! In the 16thC >
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> Peniarth MS 118, Gogfran Gawr is said to have lived at Aberysgyr in Brycheiniog (S. Wales), and there is a strong tradition connecting >
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> him w/ Castell y Cnwclas (Knucklas Castle) going back to the 15thC, w/ following tale recorded of there in 16thC:pic.twitter.com/t9YeIrkYU9
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Worth noting, btw, that Arthur+Gwenhwyfar both portrayed as Giants in Welsh folklore sometimes--Myrddin Fardd, 19thC:pic.twitter.com/wYcPFVllSr
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See further C. Grooms, _Giants of Wales. Cewri Cymru_ Welsh Studies vol 10 (Lampeter, 1993) for discussion+catalogue of Welsh giant lore :)
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@caitlinrgreen Fast & on Sunday


. TYTY so much Caitlin; will cite u if I use...and probably WILL use it


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@chopin_slut No problem! :) The section of Myrddin Fardd I quoted is from pp. 118-19 of Grooms 1993, if that helps :)
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@caitlinrgreen It do, Caitlin; TYTYTY
. You have far exceeded the requirements for Tweepness

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