What of King Griffith at Pluellan?

Meredith apowain, along with his brothers, soon took command of southwestern wales. The welsh political world was balkanized. And as for daily life, king edward proclaimed that english men had permission to marry welsh women. Now the records characterize this as an act of mercy, saying that so many welsh men were killed that the only kind thing to do was to offer those women English husbands. In reality, what this meant is that, now that harold and his army had killed large portions of welsh men, it was crown policy for the conquering army to carry off welsh women and take them back to england. This is a classic tactic of ethnic