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The Kymric comprises the Welsh; the Cornish, lately extinct; and the Armorican, of Brittany.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

This curious and interesting war poem tells of a foray made by the Ottadini, an early Kymric tribe, living in the greater Wales of their time, on the Northumbrian coast.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

Scotland gave Ireland St. Patrick; Ireland gave Scotland St. Columba; the chief bard of Armorica came from Wales; and Cornwall has the Arthurian fame which is the meed of Kymric Caledonia.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona

From 587 to 521 B.C. five Gallic expeditions, formed of Gallic, Kymric, and Ligurian tribes, followed the same route and invaded successively the two banks of the Po—the bottomless river, as they called it.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by Guizot, M. (François)

The capture of Chester split the Kymric kingdom in two, as the battle of Deorham thirty-five years before had split that kingdom off from the West Welsh of the south-western peninsula.

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson