Dynod son of Pabo ( cy, Dynod or ''Dunod ap Pabo''; la, Dunaunt; died c. 595), better known as Dynod the Stout ( cy, Dynod Bwr) or Dynod Fawr was the ruler of a small kingdom in the North
Pennines
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Hen Ogledd
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("Old North"). ''Regio Dunutinga'' was a minor kingdom or region in
North Yorkshire
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mentioned in the ''
Life of Wilfrid
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''. P.N. Wood identifies this with the area of Craven.
Dynod was a son of
Pabo Post Prydain
Pabo Post Prydain (''supp. fl.'' before 500) was a king from the Hen Ogledd or ''Old North'' of sub-Roman Britain. According to tradition Pabo "the Pillar of Britain" was driven out of the North in 460 and settled in Anglesey. He is said to have ...
and is thought to have succeeded to his kingdom. He was the father of Saint
Deiniol
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Urien
Urien (; ), often referred to as Urien Rheged or Uriens, was a late 6th-century king of Rheged, an early British kingdom of the Hen Ogledd (today's northern England and southern Scotland) of the House of Rheged. His power and his victories, i ...
of Rheged.
Llywarch Hen
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says: "Let savage Unhwch guide me; It was said in Drws Llech, ‘Dunod ap Pabo does not retreat.’" After the assassination of Urien, Dynod is said to have invaded his kingdom of
Rheged
Rheged () was one of the kingdoms of the ''Hen Ogledd'' ("Old North"), the Brittonic-speaking region of what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, during the post-Roman era and Early Middle Ages. It is recorded in several poetic and ba ...
, doing battle against Urien's sons
Owain Owain () is a name of Welsh origin, variously written in Old Welsh as Ougein, Eugein, Euguen, Iguein, Ou(u)ein, Eug(u)ein, Yuein, and in Middle Welsh as Ewein, Owein, and Ywein. Other variants of the name Owain include Ewein, Iguein, Owein, Ouein, Y ...
and Pascent. He is said to have died at the hands of the
Bernicia
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The Anglian territory of Bernicia was ap ...
n
Angles
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around AD 595.
Dynod is often confused with the abbot
Saint Dunod
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Bede
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. Archaeologist Craig Cessford suggests that Dynod may be the same individual as the baby Dinogad referred to in the early medieval Welsh lullaby
Dinogad's Smock
"Dinogad's Smock" or "Dinogad's Cloak" ( owl, Peis Dinogat; cy, Pais Dinogad) is an Old Welsh lullaby recounting the hunting prowess of the dead father of an infant named Dinogad, who is wrapped in a smock made of Pine Marten, marten skins. Th ...
.{{cite journal , last1=Cessford , first1=Craig , title=Dinogad's Smock , journal=Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Archaeological Society , date=1994 , volume=2 , issue=94 , pages=297–299 , url=https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/cumberland/contents.cfm?vol_id=742 , access-date=6 July 2021