The Location Of Cornwailes:
(excerpts & preview from book "King Arthur of Glamorgan & Gwent", by Alan Wilson & Baram Blackett, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Page 50 - 52.
The major difficulty in unravelling the story of ancient Britain is to follow the changes and mutations of names of people and places. The outstanding name confusion with the Arthurian legends is that of Cornwailes.
When the first King Brutus, led the ancestors of the British into their future homelands his chief lieutenant was a chieftain named Conan to whom Brutus gave the land of Cornwailes. Now this was NORTH WALES and has to be clearly understood otherwise the confusion will remain. The area of South West England now known as Cornwall did not become so called until around the 7th to 8th centuries. So later scholars reaching back transferred the old CORNWAILES to the new Cornwall along with the real history of the area.
When the history of ancient times speak of CORNWAILES they mean NORTH WALES and the King of the British was the KING OF WALES, plus the NORTHERN LANDS.
This mis- identification of Cornwailes is the vita area of ARTHURIAN CONFUSION. Conan or Coryn´s descendants settled in CAERNARFON, the place name Gwely Wyrion Kynan meaning "the settlement of Conan´s descendants" was the very ancient name of what later became EIVIONYDD in CAERNARFON. By establishing that old North Wales was called Cornwailes we solve much of the puzzle surrounding the stories of King Arthur 1 .
We can see that it is easily possible for his father VICTOR UTHYR PENDRAGON to have had a marriage relationship with the daughter of a Prince in North Wales, the RESULT OF WHICH WAS ARTHUR 1 and his sister ANNA. VICTOR was ruling from Cardiff and his own father MAGNUS MAXIMUS married ELEN, the daughter of OCTAVIUS - EUDAVV of CAERNARFON.
It also explains how over 150 years later a descendant ARTHUR 2 fought a great battle at CAMLAN in CORNWAILES which was NORTH WALES.
The place of the supposed BIRTH OF ARTHUR is a castle or fortress which is again in WALES if this was a dynastic marriage between the King of the ruling clan in the south and the daughter of the Lord of the north.
TIN - DAGOL is the fort of the dewlap or fresh fields, as TIN - DERYN is the Princes fort. If the Princes fort is that of the northern Prince then we favour CAERNARFON - if it is the Princes fort in the South then it has to be CARDIFF, the place of UTHER the KING - CONSUL!
The wrong identification with Cornwailes and Cornuailles - Brittany, and also with Cornwall, the South West tip of present day England has caused endless problems to those trying to understand the history of Britain in the HEROIC AGE between 400 and 600 A.D.
Any original reference to Cornwailes before 800 A.D. means NORTH WALES and nowhere else, which disposes of the false West Country myths WHICH HAS MISLED searches for so long.
What appears to have happened is that the following dynastic marriage between Magnus Maximus and Elen the daughter of King Euddav of Caernarfon, or King Octavius of Segontium, his son Victor -Uther the Pendragon at Cardiff also contracted a similar marriage with the daughter of the Lord of the North who succeeded Euddav.
THIS LADY was named IGERNA by GRUFFYDD ap ARTHUR and this is therefore EYSUELT or ISOLDE.
HER FATHER is named as GORLOIS and this is also translatable.
As there were 2 children of this marriage, ARTHUR 1 ANARAWD, or ANDRAGATIUS in Latin - and a girl named ANNA, it was NO quick illicit love affair as some fables suggest.
There is a remarkable parallel as 150 years later the 2nd ARTHUR was born a son of KING MEURIG of GLAMORGAN and he ALSO had a sister named ANNA who was married to St. ILLTYD.
Gelli Wyrion Cynan in Cornwailes, meaning Conan´s settlement in North Wales, somehow became Gelli Wig in Cornwall and the great muddle began.
Alternatively, Arthur´s court and hunting lodge over in Brittany, accurately located by folklore and tradition, in old CORNOUAILLES became confused in the same way.
(by Alan Wilson & Baram Blackett)