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Origin of the name GWENDOLEN.
Etymology of the name GWENDOLEN.
Meaning of the baby name GWENDOLEN.
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GWENDOLEN. Welsh
Arthurian
legend name of a wife of Arthur, meaning "white browed." (History
of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884).
Gwendolen is made by the Brut, and by Geoffrey of
Monmouth, the daughter of Corineus, Duke of Cornwall, and wife of
Locrine, son of the original Brutus...
The Welsh saints give us St. Gwendolen or Gwen as the
mother of Caradog Vreichfras, the excellent Sir Cradocke of the Round
Table. In the Triads and the Mabinogion, Gwendolen is a beauty of
Arthur's court, and in the bardic enumeration of the thirteen wonders of
Britain appears the gold chess-board of Gwendolen, on which, when the
silver men were placed, they would play of themselves. Gwendolen,
Gwen, and Gwyn have never been disused in Wales. The first was the
daughter of the last native prince, and her name is increasingly in
favour with the lovers of archaisms. (History
of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)
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