A Welsh Classical Dictionary
A WELSH CLASSICAL DICTIONARY CACAMWRI, one of Arthur's servants. He is mentioned in the tale of ‘Culhwch and Olwen’ as one of Arthur's servants. ‘Show him a barn, if there were a course for thirty ploughs therein, he would beat it with an iron flail till it was no better than the boards, the cross-pieces and the sidebeams than for the small oats in the mow at the bottom of the barn’ (WM 467, RM 111). He was brother, by the same mother, to Hygwydd, another servant of Arthur (RM 136). He took part in the hunting of the boar, Trwyth, being one of those who succeeded in throwing the boar into the Severn, but he was dragged into the water, and as he was being pulled out, two quern-stones dragged him down into the deep (RM 140-1). However he evidently survived, for he was sent with Hygwydd to fight the witch, Orddu, but was manhandled by her and nearly killed. They both had to be carried away on Llamrei, Arthur's mare (RM 141-2). CADAFAEL ap CYNFEDW. In a triad (TYP no.68) Cadauel ap Kynuedw is mentioned as one of the three kings who were sprung from ‘villeins’, his kingdom being Gwynedd. According to HB §65 Catgabail, king of Gwynedd, appears to have gone out with Penda [see Panna], king of Mercia, with many other kings of the Britons against Oswy, king of Bernicia (642 - 671). A great battle was fought at Gai Campus, and there Penda was slain with great slaughter, and the kings of the Britons with him.
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