Hi Jeff,
Re Mervinian. Mervinian crops up in Blackmore's poem about King
Arthur. The extract deals with N. Wales. Is Tegeian linked to Llyn Tegid?
The Silures & Ordovices were tribes of the area. This is the bit with
Mervinian in it.
King Meridoe the Oordovican leads
Down from the British Alps, whose snowy Heads
Imaus like, stand towring in the Air,
And midst the Stars eternal Winter bear.
And from the Soil lav'd by Conovius Flood,
And Menai's Banks, where then Segontium stood.
Great Numbers swarm'd from Mona's noble Isle,
Deform'd for Aspect, but of fertile Soil.
Where once in shady Groves erected stood,
The Druids Altars stain'd with humane Blood.
The Troops their March from Mediolanum take,
From Helen's Way, and the Tegeian Lake.
Thro' which fair
Deva's Streams so swiftly pass,
They uncorrupted shun th' impure Embrace.
Here the sublime Mervinian Mountains rise,
And with sharp-pointed Tops transfix the Skies.
Next Morogan the bold, Silures brought,
None for their Country's Freedom better fought.
They bravely Valens and his Troops withstood,
And dy'd Sabrina's Streams with Roman Blood.
With like Success Veranius they defeat,
Graham