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Porthor

Poem 31 of the Black Book of Carmarthen, a mid-13th-century manuscript, is known from its first line as Pa Ŵr yw'r Porthor? (Middle Welsh: Pa gur yv y porthaur? 'What man is the gatekeeper?') and alternatively as Pa Ŵr, Pa gur, or Ymddiddan Arthur a Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr ("The dialogue of Arthur and G

lewlwyd Gafaelfawr"). It is a fragmentary, anonymous poem in Old Welsh, taking the form of a dialogue between King Arthur and the gatekeeper Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr, in which Arthur boasts of his own exploits and those of his companions, especially Cai the Fair. Pa Ŵr is notable for being one of the earliest vernacular Arthurian works, and for alluding to several early adventures of Arthur which are now...

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