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504 This plague lasted from the year 557 to 562, and its ravages were fearful in the extreme. A Triad records it as one of the three direful maladies, and it is even employed as an image of horror in the compositions of the Bards.

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would appear that Heinin was Bard to the College of LLanveithin, at LLancarvan, in Glamorganshire, and that he flourished between A.D. 520 and 560. In the "Chwedlaur Doethion," or "Sayings of Wise Men," preserved in a Welsh MS. called "Llyfr Tre Brynn," and published in the collection. of Iolo MSS. by the Welsh MSS. Society, the following saying is attributed to him.—

Hast thou heard the saying of Heinin,

The Bard of the college of Llanveithin?

The brave is never cruel!"



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