The Mystery of the Kingdom that Sank into the Ocean

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In 1809, the Gough map at the Bodleian library in Oxford would reveal a bizarre secret: the existence of two small, mysterious islands off of the coast of Ceredigion in Wales.
What made these islands stand out, though, was the fact that they no longer existed. There were no islands in this portion of Ceredigion Bay, and according to the maps known to historians today, there hadn't been islands here since at least the 1600s.

To add even more fuel to this mystery, these islands appear to have existed precisely where a Welsh legend of a medieval kingdom that sank into the ocean took place.

What started as a question on the existence of two missing islands, developed into a mystery of whether or not this ancient story of a sunken kingdom was actually based in reality. In this video, we will examine whether this medieval mystery really took place in the history of Wales.

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:34 - Maes Gwyddno
6:18 - Taliesin
11:14 - Ynys Teithi Hen
15:45 - Maes Meigen
19:39 - Llys Helig
22:12 - Cantre'r Gwaelod
24:52 - The Sarnau
31:39 - The Sunken Kingdoms

Sources (sorry these don't have specific citation numbers, I didn't used to always do them. Looking to go back and add them in the subtitles soon):
Bartrum, P.C. (1993). A Welsh Classical Dictionary : People in History and Legend up to about A.D. 1000. The National Library of Wales.
pp. 392-393, (Gwyddno ap Cawdraf)
393, (Gwyddno, king of Meirionydd)
393-396, (Gwyddno Garahir)
412-413 (Helig ap Glannog)
539, (Mererid)
630, (Rhedfoe ap Rheged)
667-668, (Seithennin)
696. (Teithi Hen)

Bromwich, R. (2014). Trioedd Ynys Prydein. 4th ed. University of Wales Press, pp.75–76, 162, 508–509.

Davies, J. (2007). A History of Wales. London: Penguin, pp.3-5.

Green, E.T. (1911). Meeting at Gogerddan. Transactions and archaeological record, Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, 1(1), pp.24–26.

Haslett, S.K. and Willis, D. (2022). The ‘lost’ islands of Cardigan Bay, Wales, UK: insights into the post-glacial evolution of some Celtic coasts of northwest Europe.. Atlantic Geoscience, 58, pp.131–146. doi:https://doi.org/10.4138/atlgeo.2022.005.

Nurse, B. (2017). Richard Gough: the father of British topography. The British Library. https://www.bl.uk/picturing-places/ar....

Music courtesy of the YouTube Audio Library:
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Ammil - The Tides

Fortress Europe - Dan Bodan

Dream Escape - Density & Time

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Dolphin-esque - Godmode

Under The Rug - Density & Time

Sun Awakening - Futuremono

Ether Oar - The Whole Other

Dark Matter - Chasms

Images:
'Plans of harbours, bars, bays and roads in St. George's Channel' kindly provided by the National Library of Wales, and used with permission.

Gough Map: Director General of the Ordnance Survey, UK, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sarn Badrig: Ian Warburton, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Sarn Gyfelin: Dave Croker / View to Wallog, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sunken forest at Y Borth: Eveengland, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Thumbnail image is public domain, provided by the Rijks Museum

All other images are public domain, provided by: the Yale Center for British Art, Art Institvte Chicago, the National Library of Wales, and the Rijks Museum.

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