The Three Fettered Men of the Island of Britain:
And this is why those men were called Fettered: because horses could not be obtained that were suited to them, owing to their size; so they put fetters of gold around the small of their legs, on the cruppers of their horses, behind their backs; and two golden plates under their knees, and because of this the knee is called 'knee-pan'.)
"The imaginative explanation is from the
White Book version. The original meaning may be '
torqued.' The word is
Hualavc and elsewhere
hual has been interpreted as the torque worn by a chief prince."--Jeff Davies.
Cadwaladr is a historical king.
Rhun is the son of Maelgwn Gwynedd, who had Elphin ap Gwyddno held in prison, as recounted in the Hanes Taliesin.
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