genealogy of the Princes of Gwynedd begins with Cunedda Wledig
(Paramount) cir. 400: ending in 1282 with Llywelyn son of Gruffydd.

_The scorn-diadem'd head_; On finding whom he had slain, Frankton carried
Llywelyn's head to Edward at Rhuddlan, who, with a barbarity unworthy of
himself, set it over the Tower of London, wreathed in mockery of a
prediction (ascribed to Merlin) upon the coronation of a Welsh Prince in
London.

_Rhodri and Owain_; Rhodri Mawr, (843), who united under his supremacy
the other Welsh principalities, Powys and Dinefawr; Owain Gwynedd,
(1137),--are among the most conspicuous of Llywelyn's royal predecessors.



THE REJOICING OF THE LAND


1295

So the land had rest! and the cloud of that heart-sore struggle and pain
Rose from her ancient hills, and peace shone o'er her again,
Sunlike chasing the plagues wherewith the land was defiled;
And the leprosy fled, and her flesh came again, as the flesh of a child.
--They were stern and stark, the three children of Rolf, the first from
Anjou:
For their own sake loving the land, mayhap, but loving her true;
France the wife, and England the handmaid; yet over the realm
Their eyes were in every place, their hands gripp'd firm on the helm.
Villein and earl, the cowl and the plume, they were bridled alike;