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Rh It is in the latter character that he is alluded to by Gmffudd ap Meredith, in the beginning of the fourteenth Century, who compares the force of his own passion to that of Kynon for Moryth, and that of Uther Pendragon for the fair Ygrayne.

As the sigh of Uther for the love of Ygraine, the flur and splendid,

And the sigh of Kynon for the love of the beauteous daughter of Urien,

Such is the sigh of the bard for the lovely object of his affections. Myv. Arch.

In the Memorials of the Graves of the Warriors, the following stanza records the place of the sepulture of Kynon.

The grave of a warrior of high renown

Is in a lofty region—but a lowly bed,

The grave of Kynon the son of Glydno Eiddin."

In another stanza, the term lovely bed seems to be explained, and it would appear that a little hollow among the mountains was meant:

Whose is the grave beneath the hill?

It is the grave of a warrior valiant in the conflict—

The grave of Kynon the son of Glydno Eiddin."

—Page 3.

, the father of Cynon.—But little is known of the history of this Chieftain, although as late as the fourteenth Century, his name is found recorded by the Bards, in such terms as to make it evident that he still continued to occupy a place of considerable distinction among the heroes of the Principality, as may be seen in a poem by Risierdyn, a bard who flourished about the year 1300. In this poem, which records the burial of Hywel ap Gruffudd in the Church of St. Beuno, that Warrior is compared in point of bravery to Clydno.

The red-weaponed chief, the ruler of the golden region of costly wine,

Saint Beuno's blessed choir now conceals;

The mighty high- famed leader, daring as Clydno.

Silent are his remains within their oaken cell." Myv. Arch. I. 432.