Prydain - Revision history

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[[File:Map Gaels Brythons Picts.png|thumb|right|250px|Britain & Ireland in the early–mid 1st millennium, before the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain|founding of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Red is mainly Brittonic areas, Blue is Pictish lands, and Green is Scoti (now known as Irish).]]Prydain is the medieval Welsh term for the island of Britain (the name Albion was not used by the Welsh). More specifically, Prydain may refer to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Britons Brittonic parts] of the island; that is, the parts south of Caledonia. This distinction appears to derive from Roman times, when the island was divided into Roman Britain to the south and the land of the Caledonians to the North. The peoples north of the Roman borders eventually came to be known as the Picts (Welsh: Brithwyr); the Welsh term for Pictland was Prydyn, which caused some confusion in the texts with Prydain.

In Middle Welsh texts, the related term Ynys Prydein (Island of Britain), or Ynys Brydein, can also refer to the island (ynys) itself but more often is a name for the Brittonic territories south of Caledonia. It is in this context that the name of the collection of traditional material arranged in triads known as Trioedd Ynys Prydein should be understood. In modern Welsh ynys means 'island', but in Middle Welsh it can also mean 'land' or 'realm' (cf. Latin insula).
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 The only available armor forms in Britain are very different from the Roman styles which had preceded them: simple leather jerkins, and scale mail using bronze scales over a leather coat. Bronze or iron helms styled somewhere be tween the standard GURPS pot-helm and great-helm were also used. Medium shields were used on horseback, and medium or large shields on foot. A few pieces of Roman plate or chain may be in the hands of upper-class Britons. A variety of swords were available; Roman-style shortswords may have been most common, but there is some evidence that broadswords were already
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 Post-Roman Britain
-Culturally, the people of Prydain are closer to their Celtic forebears than the Normanized Britons of Malory and the Vulgate. Their political organization is more tribal than feudal, especially after the departure of the Roman Empire. This occurred much more recently in the real Britain than in myth; many Britons were still "Romanized," that is, living and thinking as Romans. For a long time, they were at the core of what little central government survived. Ambrosius Aurelianus briefly reorganized them to help repel the Saxons, but as a separate cultural group they lasted only a few decades.
+Culturally, the people of Prydain are closer to their Celtic forebears than the Normanized Britons of Malory and the Vulgate. Their political organization is more tribal than feudal, especially after the departure of the Roman Empire. This occurred much more recently in the real Britain than in myth; many Britons were still "Romanized," that is, living and thinking as Romans. For a long time, they were at the core of what little central government survived. [[Ambrosius Aurelianus]] briefly reorganized them to help repel the Saxons, but as a separate cultural group they lasted only a few decades.
-Once Rome departed, the ancient Celtic clans and tribes began to reassert themselves. This was in part due to clan-linked defensive plans established by early generals. Left to itself, Britain might have returned entirely to a clan/tribe system, but something intervened. As a result of a bungle by Vortigern, Riothamus' predecessor, the Saxon invasions began. Britain halted midway in its slide back to barbarism to repel even more barbarous invaders. The Roman-based organization of Britain held, even under the slipshod leadership of the
+Once Rome departed, the ancient Celtic clans and tribes began to reassert themselves. This was in part due to clan-linked defensive plans established by early generals. Left to itself, Britain might have returned entirely to a clan/tribe system, but something intervened. As a result of a bungle by [[Vortigern]], the Saxon invasions began. Britain halted midway in its slide back to barbarism to repel even more barbarous invaders. The Roman-based organization of Britain held, even under the slipshod leadership of the
 various clan heads.

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	In Middle Welsh texts, the related term Ynys Prydein (Island of Britain), or Ynys Brydein, can also refer to the island (ynys) itself but more often is a name for the Brittonic territories south of Caledonia. It is in this context that the name of the collection of traditional material arranged in triads known as Trioedd Ynys Prydein should be understood. In modern Welsh ynys means 'island', but in Middle Welsh it can also mean 'land' or 'realm' (cf. Latin insula).		In Middle Welsh texts, the related term Ynys Prydein (Island of Britain), or Ynys Brydein, can also refer to the island (ynys) itself but more often is a name for the Brittonic territories south of Caledonia. It is in this context that the name of the collection of traditional material arranged in triads known as Trioedd Ynys Prydein should be understood. In modern Welsh ynys means 'island', but in Middle Welsh it can also mean 'land' or 'realm' (cf. Latin insula).
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