Garnedd Ugain, often referred to as "Crib-y-Ddysgl", is a pyramidal
mountain
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in
Wales
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that forms part of the
Snowdon Massif. It is the second-highest peak in Wales, and lies just under one kilometre north of the summit of
Snowdon itself.
It is part of the ''Snowdon Horseshoe'' route, being linked to
Crib Goch
Crib Goch is described as a "knife-edged" arĂȘte in the Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, Wales. The name means "red ridge" in the Welsh language.
The highest point on the arĂȘte is above sea level. All routes which tackle Crib Goch are ...
via the col at Bwlch Coch, and to Snowdon summit via the col at Bwlch Glas. It is also linked to Cwm Glas to the northeast via a steep arete called Clogwyn y Person, which joins the main Crib y Ddysgl ridge about east of the summit.
Name
Both ''Garnedd Ugain'' and ''Crib-y-Ddysgl'' appear on the
Ordnance Survey
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's maps of the area. The name Crib-y-Ddysgl refers to the east ridge whilst the summit is Garnedd or Carnedd Ugain.
Crib-y-Ddysgl (meaning "
ridge
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of the
dish" in
Welsh
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People
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* Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peopl ...
) is the name used by Alan Dawson for the peak's listing as a
Hewitt.
''Carnedd Ugain'' in Welsh means "Cairn of the Twenty" (the form ''Garnedd'' is the result of
soft mutation
In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them more sonorous. The word ''lenition'' itself means "softening" or "weakening" (from Latin 'weak'). Lenition can happen both synchronically (within a language at ...
). This was possibly named after the
Roman legion based in Caernarfon.
The web pages of the Welsh Mountaineering Club suggest that the name could also be a corruption of "Carnedd Wgon", and so named after the prince Wgon sung of by
Dafydd ap Gwilym or possibly after the 13th-century poet
Gwgon Brydydd
Gwgon ap Meurig (died ) was a 9th-century king of Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi (i.e., Seisyllwg) in southwest Wales.
Gwgon was the son of the former king Meurig or Morydd ap Llywarch Llwyd and inherited the realm on the death of his father.
G ...
.
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. (NB "Gwgon" becomes "Wgon" under soft mutation.)
References
Hewitts of Wales
Tourism in Gwynedd
Mountains and hills of Snowdonia
Nuttalls
Furths
Mountains and hills of Gwynedd
Beddgelert
Betws Garmon
Llanberis
One-thousanders of the British Isles
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