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36 Alluding to the incessant warfare with which this chieftain, during his lifetime, had harassed his Saxon foes.

In the Myvyrian Archaiology (II. 80) we have the following Triad relating to him.

"Three Knights of battle were in the Coart of Arthur; Cadwr, the Earl of Cornwall; Lancelot da Lac; and Owain the son of Urien Rheged. And this was their characteristic, that they would not retreat from battle, neither for Spear, nor for Arrow, nor for Sword, and Arthur never had shame in battle, the day he saw their faces there, and they were called the Knights of Battle."

Owain is also mentioned with Rhnn mab Maelgwn, and Rhufawn befr mab Deorath Wledig, as one of the Three blessed Kings; and in the 52nd Triad, we are informed that his Mother^s name wair ModroQ, the daughter of Afallach, and that he was born a twin with his sister Merwydd, or Morvyth, to whom Cynon ap Clydno's attachment is well known.

His place of sepulture is thus mentioned in the Graves of the Warriors.

The grave of Owain ap Urien is of quadrangular form,

Under the turf of Llan Morvael."

Frequent allusions are made to Owain by the Bards of the Middle Ages, especially by Lewis Glyn Cothi, who in an ode to Gruffudd ap Nicholas, a powerful chieftain of Carmarthenshire," and one of the descendants of Urien Bheged, has, among other things, the following passage:

Gruffudd will give three ravens of one hue.

And a white lion to Owain, [his son]."—I. 133.

The Editor of the works of Glyn Cothi supposes that "this expression may allude to Griffith presenting his son with a shield, with his own arms emblazoned upon it, and the royal lion for a