Em sábado, 9 de julho de 2016 20:05:17 UTC+1, Stewart Baldwin via escreveu: > On 7/9/2016 12:02 PM, Paulo Canedo via wrote: > > Hello, I contacted Mr.Darrell Wolcott president of the Center for the Study of Ancient Wales about if Angharad was a late invention and he said that altough the first manuscript mentioning Angharad was from the fourtheen century, the sources of that manuscript given the people mentioned could be of as early as the first quarter of the 13th century. And more important, altough Angharad wasn´t mentioned in Harleian Ms 3859 written c. 970x985 neither was any son of Rhodri Mawr except Cadell, the son who was a paternal ancestor of Owain ap Hywel Dda and no one denies that Rhodri Mawr had other children. > > Mr. Wolcott is the author of all of the "studies" from the "Center for > the Study of Ancient Wales" which I have seen, and so far as I can tell, > the "Center" is little more than window dressing to make Mr. Wolcott's > often outlandish throries seem more scholarly than they really are. My > recommendation would be not to trust the information on that site. > > As for Angharad, here basence from Harleian MS 3859 is not main point. > Other than the lateness of the evidence, the main problem is that the > earliest manuscript mentioning her has an identifiable pattern of > suspicious features suggesting that a number of women were invented to > provide convenient marriages for the kings of Gwynedd to allegedly > "inherit" other kingdoms, and Angharad is a part of that pattern. > > Stewart Baldwin But at least that site uses generational gaps of 30 and 35 years that agrees with the Welsh Laws see http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id22.html .

On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 8:26:26 AM UTC-4, Paulo Canedo wrote: > > Stewart Baldwin > > But at least that site uses generational gaps of 30 and 35 years that agrees with the Welsh Laws see http://www.ancientwalesstudies.org/id22.html . This is an utterly unconvincing argument made on this page. It makes a giant leap of assumptions to rule out men at 25 having a family. To assume in Welsh culture that men remained celibate until 30 or 35 years is a strange enough claim that needs a much broader set of proof to overcome.