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Beddgelert
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, meaning the 'grave of Gelert' (19km/12m SE of Caernarfon) Village on the river Glaslyn, in a green valley below wooded hills, which was the site of a Celtic monastery from the 6C and of a priory founded by *Llywelyn ab Iorwerth. The village is best known now for a legend, according to which Gelert was Llywelyn's dog, slain by the king when he found his infant son missing and the dog covered in blood. Then the child was found, alive and well, close to a dead and equally blood-stained wolf. Llywelyn gave the heroic dog a suitable burial, hence the village's name. An enterprising local publican in the 18C put together the stones which are now much visited as poor Gelert's grave.
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