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  • The rest of Hen'gwr's supposed paranormal abilities would be only so much topping on the cake. "

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • Also, drud (expensive) and rhad (cheap) used to get mixed up, as did gwr (husband) and gwraig (wife) – not helped by their proximity in my course notes.

    Pidgin Stryd | Quixotic Quisling 2008

  • Tasa ni wedi prynnu desgl lloeren, fe fydda ganddi dri o blant a gwr yn trio ei hel hi i'r stafall gefn i sbio ar y teledu bach, tra bo nhw'n isda o flaen y set fawr yn sbio ar WWF neu'r Simpsons.

    Entourage Dyfrig 2008

  • Tasa ni wedi prynnu desgl lloeren, fe fydda ganddi dri o blant a gwr yn trio ei hel hi i'r stafall gefn i sbio ar y teledu bach, tra bo nhw'n isda o flaen y set fawr yn sbio ar WWF neu'r Simpsons.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Dyfrig 2008

  • He told me that with all due submission, he thought he could give me a better, which he had heard from a very clever man, gwr deallus iawn, who lived about two miles from Llangollen on the Corwen road.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • “Did you ever hear of a gwr boneddig called Owen Glendower?”

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • Jones told her that his companion, the gwr boneddig, meaning myself, had come in order to see the birth-place of Huw Morris, and that I was well acquainted with his works, having gotten them by heart in Lloegr, when a boy.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • “Croesaw! gwr boneddig, croesaw! many, many welcomes to you, gentleman!”

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • “Madam, this gwr boneddig wishes to know the name of that moel, perhaps you can tell him.”

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • Yn y Bala, ymhen ychydig, gwelai y fydwraig y gwr, sef tad y baban, a dechreuodd ei holi pa sut yr oeddynt yn Siambra Duon? pa fodd yr oedd y wraig?

    Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

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