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[cf. Old English hreod, banner; wine, friend]

Name ascribed to the daughter of Hengist, semi-legendary 5th-century Saxon invader of Britain; its possible Welsh antecendent is Rhonwen. Sir Walter Scott used the name for the Saxon heroine of his novel Ivanhoe (1819).

 
 
 

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Celtic Mythology. A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Copyright © James MacKillop 1998, 2004. All rights reserved.  Read more

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