Molmutine Laws

The Molmutine Laws were the laws said to have been instituted over the Britons by Dyfnwal Moelmud,[1] who is also referred by the Latin form of his name, Dunvallo Molmutius (from which the Molmutine Laws take their title).[2] The Laws were most famously described by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae.[3] Little remains known of these laws, with surviving Welsh codes simply noting that Dyfnwal's laws were largely superseded by the new codes instituted by Hywel Da.[4] Hywel was said, however, to have retained Dyfnwal's units of measurement.

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  3. ^ Levelt, Sjoerd (2002-01-01), "'This book, attractively composed to form a consecutive and orderly narrative': The Ambiguity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie", The Medieval Chronicle II, BRILL, pp. 130–143, ISBN 978-90-04-48765-9, retrieved 2024-01-03
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