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Certain scholars, such as '', and who is associated with King Arthur . However, William F. Skene and other scholars identify Llongborth with the battle in 710 between a later Geraint and Ine of Wessex – in this case, the Geraint of the elegy is identified as the 8th Century king Geraint Of Dumnonia . This evidently requires a later date of composition than the Portsmouth/Llywarch Hen hypothesis. Skene suggests Langport in Somerset as the location of the battle. [http://www.langport.org/history.htm Various other locations have also been suggested. The poem itself, found in the Red Book Of Hergest and Black Book Of Carmarthen , praises Geraint's heroism, dwells with rhetorical repetitiveness on the speed of his horses, and makes in passing one of the earliest known allusions to Arthur . Though Arthur is often referred to simply as a war leader in early Welsh material, he is called "the emperor" in ''Elegy for Geraint''. SEE ALSO |
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