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Urien Yrechwydd (in English: Urien of Yrechwydd) is a late Old Welsh or Middle Welsh heroic poem found uniquely in the Book of Taliesin.It is among those poems in the manuscript thought by Ifor Williams possibly to have originated as part of a sixth-century corpus of Canu Taliesin, a series of poems really composed by the semi-legendary sixth-century court poet of Rheged, Taliesin.
The earliest genealogy of Urien (in origin c. 850–950 AD) from Harley MS 3859 gives his patrilineal descent as 'Urien son of Cynfarch son of Meirchion son of Gwrwst son of Coel Hen.' [26] His earliest recorded ancestor, Coel Hen, functioned as an origin point for many of the northern Brythonic-speaking dynasties of the early Middle Ages in Britain. [27]
Taliesin's authorship of several odes to King Urien Rheged (died c. 550) is commonly accepted, [6] [7] and they mention The Eden Valley and an enemy leader, Fflamddwyn, [8] identified as Ida [9] or his son Theodric. [10]
Ifor Williams similarly describes the Canu Taliesin as credibly being the work of Taliesin, or at least 'to be contemporary with Cynan Garwyn, Urien, his son Owain, and Gwallawg', possibly historical kings who respectively ruled Powys; Rheged, which was centred in the region of the Solway Firth on the borders of present-day England and Scotland ...
Urien, prince of Rheged; men of Catraeth; men of Britain or Pictland Gweith Gwen Ystrat (in English: The Battle of Gwen Ystrad ), is a late Old Welsh or Middle Welsh heroic poem found uniquely in the Book of Taliesin , where it forms part of the Canu Taliesin , a series of poems attributed to the 6th-century court poet of Rheged, Taliesin .
Llywarch Hen was the son of Elidurus, chief of Argoed (in the Rheged region, later Cumberland). [1] In the genealogy known as "Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd (The Descent of the Men of the North)" he is listed as a descendant of Coel Hen (King Cole), and is first cousin to King Urien Rheged.
The chief references to the historical Owain appear in the poems of Taliesin, Urien's bard.In one poem, he appears as the victor of the Battle of Alclud Ford.Another, Gweith Argoed Llwyfain ("The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain"), tells of Owain's part in a battle between the men of Rheged under Urien and the men of Bernicia under "Fflamddwyn" (Firestealer), possibly the Anglian king Theodric.
Most of what is known about the battle comes from the early Welsh poem Gwaith Argoed Llwyfain by the poet and bard Taliesin. [1] Supposedly on one Saturday, Fflamddwyn had surrounded the seat of power within Rheged and demanded that King Urien submit and provide hostages.