In some old Welsh texts, Eliwlod is a nephew of

King Arthur According to legends, King Arthur (; ; ; ) was a king of Great Britain, Britain. He is a folk hero and a central figure in the medieval literary tradition known as the Matter of Britain. In Wales, Welsh sources, Arthur is portrayed as a le ...

. His father is Madoc, son of

Uther Pendragon Uther Pendragon ( ; the Brittonic languages, Brittonic name; , or ), also known as King Uther (or Uter), was a List of legendary kings of Britain, legendary King of the Britons and father of King Arthur. A few minor references to Uther appe ...

, an obscure brother of Arthur's mentioned a very few times in Welsh literature. Arthur thought highly of Eliwlod's eloquence. Eliwlod appears in the

Welsh Triads The Welsh Triads (, "Triads of the Island of Britain") are a group of related texts in medieval manuscripts which preserve fragments of Welsh folklore, mythology and traditional history in groups of three. The triad is a rhetorical form whereby o ...

, where he is called one of the three "Golden-Tongued Knights of Britain", alongside Gwalchmei ap Gwyar (Gawain) and Drudwas ap Tryffin. He pays a postmortem visit to his uncle in the form of an eagle in the poem ''Arthur and the Eagle''. Eliwlod figures in the works of Welsh poet Lewys Glyn Cothi. In the Hendregadredd Manuscript, the poet Bleddyn Fardd praises his patron Rhys ap Maredudd by likening him to Arthur's "beloved' nephew Eliwlod.''Arthur in Early Welsh Poetry'' (Nerys Ann Jones, ed.) MHRA, Library of Medieval Welsh Literature, 2019, p.113
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