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Over time, Gwallog evolved into a semi-mythological figure akin to [[King Arthur|Arthur]]. In the medieval text "Geraint son of Erbin", he is named as one of Arthur's knights<ref>http://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/guest-geraint.</ref> and also appears in the [[Welsh Triads|Welsh triads]] as one of the "Three Armed Warriors of the Island of Britain" and one of the "Three Battle Pillars of the Island of Britain".<ref>''Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain'', ed. and trans. by Rachel Bromwich, 4th edn (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2014), p. 11.</ref> Gwallog is also mentioned in the [[Black Book of Carmarthen]] poem "''Ymddiddan Gwyddno Garanhir a Gwyn ap Nudd''" as one of the slain warriors escorted to their graves by [[Gwyn ap Nudd]], the lord of the Welsh [[Annwn|Otherworld]].<ref>''Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain'', ed. and trans. by Rachel Bromwich, 4th edn (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2014), p. 372.</ref>

The medieval Welsh ''[[Bonedd y Saint]]'' claims that Gwallog was the father of [[Talybont, Barmouth|Saint Dwywe]], though this is unlikely to be based on sound historical information.<ref>W. Owen Pughe, 'The Topopgraphy of Meirion', ''Transactions of the Cymmrodorion, or Metropolitan Cambrian Institution'', 1 (1822), 150-72 (p. 169).</ref>

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