The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . -night Seithenen (called everafterwards) the Drunkard, his sea-ward, was inhis cups and did not watch the sea. The floodbroke in and drowned the Cantref and sixteengreat fortified cities, the finest in all Wales,with it. Cardigan Bay occupies the spot where the fertileplains of the Cantref had been the habitation andsupport of a flourishing population. Such asescaped the inundation fled to Ardudwy, and thecountry of Arvon, and the mountains of Eryri(Snowdon), and other places not previously in-habited. By none was this misfortune moreseverel
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . -night Seithenen (called everafterwards) the Drunkard, his sea-ward, was inhis cups and did not watch the sea. The floodbroke in and drowned the Cantref and sixteengreat fortified cities, the finest in all Wales,with it. Cardigan Bay occupies the spot where the fertileplains of the Cantref had been the habitation andsupport of a flourishing population. Such asescaped the inundation fled to Ardudwy, and thecountry of Arvon, and the mountains of Eryri(Snowdon), and other places not previously in-habited. By none was this misfortune moreseverely felt than by Gwyddno Garanhir, towhom the reverse of circumstances it occasionedwas so great that, from being an opulent monarch,he was all at once reduced to the necessity ofmaintaining himself and his only son, the un-fortunate Elphin, by the produce of the fishing-weir mentioned in the text. This disastrous event is commemorated in aproverb still repeated in the Principality :— The sigh of Gwyddno Garanhir When the wave rolled over his XHX o a H<C ?/) H < QO
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