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have the name of the Black Knight given us both in the English and in the French venion. In the former, the appellation of Salados the rouse is bestowed upon him, and in the latter he is called Elcadoc le rous, which bears some resemblance to the Welsh Cadoc or Cattwg.

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maiden, whose name we subsequently find to be Luned, is supposed, in the Notes to Jones's Welsh Bards, to be the same person as Elined the daughter of Brjchan; although from the accounts transmitted to us of that illustrious ladj, she appears to have differed much in disposition and pursuits from the handmaid of the Lady of the Fountain. Mr. Bees, in his valuable Essay on the Welsh Saints, has the following notice concerning her:—

"Elined, the Almedha of Giraldus Cambrensis, who says that she suffered mariyrdom upon a hill called Penginger, near Brecknock, which the Historian of that County, so often quoted, identifies with Slwch.

'Cmg gorseddawl,' mentioned after the name of Elined in the Myvyrian Archaiology, has been taken for Wyddgrug, or Mold, in Flintshire; but it may be no more than a descriptive appellation of Slwch, on which there were lately some remains of a British Camp. Cressy, speaking of St Almedha, says, ' This devout virgin, rejecting the proposals of an earthly prince, who sought her in marriage, and espousing herself to the eternal king, consummated her life by a triumphant martyrdom. The day of her solemnity is celebrated every year on the firstday of August' "—(149–50.)

The beauty of Luned was much celebrated amongst the Bards of the Middle Ages. Grufindd ap Meredydd, who flouiisbed between 1290 and 1340, thus alludes to her charms, in an Elegy on Gwenhwyvar of Anglesey:—

"Alas, for the loss of her who was equal to Luned, that gem of light!"

And Dafydd ap Gwilym mentions her in the same strain.

She is in the French Romances generally called Lunette, and in the Morte d' Arthur she acts a couspicuous part in the story of Sir Gareth of Orkney, who undertook the adventure of the "Castel