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The
Battle of Arfderydd (also know as
Arderydd) was fought, according to the
Annales Cambriae, in
573. The opposing armies are variously given in a number of
Old Welsh sources, perhaps suggesting a number of allied armies were involved. The main adversaries appear to have been
Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio and either the princely brothers,
Peredur and
Gwrgi, or King
Riderch Hael of
Strathclyde. Gwenddoleu was defeated, and his forces killed. His
bard,
Lailoken, went mad and ran into the forest. He is probably the original of the
Arthurian character,
Merlin.
In a late
15th century manuscript, a story called 'Lailoken and
Kentigern' places the battle on the plain between Liddel and Carwannok. This is believed to be at
Arthuret, near
Longtown, in
Cumberland (now
Cumbria).
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