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- s. xx–xxi
- c.1545–1604
Welsh clergyman, who became bishop of Llandaf (cons. 1595) and subsequently of St Asaph (1601). He is known for having produced the first Welsh translation of the complete Bible (the Old and New Testaments), which took him many years to complete and was finally published in 1588.
Moríath (alias Muiríath ‘Sea-land’), daughter of Scoríath, king of the Fir Morca in Munster, and the wife of Labraid Loingsech, high-king of Ireland from the Laigin.
In the Acallam na senórach, a daughter to the ‘king of (the Sea of) the Greeks’, who gave Finn a magnificent drinking-horn called the Angalach; in one version of the text, listed as his wife.
- 1693 (Quimper)–1750
Dom Pierre-Hyacinthe Morice de Beaubois, or in short Dom Morice, was a Benedictine historian and a member of the Maurists.
Morna, father of Goll and founder of the Clann Morna; said in Macgnímartha Finn to be a son of Eochu Find, son of Coirpre Galach, son of Muiredach.
deity or supernatural figure in medieval Irish literature, frequently associated with war and destruction; she sometimes appears as part of a triad with Macha and the Badb; also associated with Nemain.
- d. 1977
- 1833–1907
- Carmarthen
Welsh poet who wrote in English, great-grandson of his better known namesake.
- 1701–1765
- Anglesey
Welsh scholar and land surveyor. He and his brother Richard founded the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion.
- 17723–1779
Welsh antiquary, brother of Lewis, William and John Morris, and founder of the Cymmrodorion Society.
