What is "dinas"

Usage examples of "dinas".

One story is that an ancient Ubar of Ar, capturing the daughter of a fleeing, defeated enemy in a field of dinas there enslaved her, stripping her by the sword, ravishing her and putting chains upon her.

Iorweth of Powys helped him, but there was no sign of Dinas or Lavaine.

Culhwch glanced across at Lancelot who was flanked by the twins Dinas and Lavaine.

You have to satisfy other Druids that you know your business, and I never heard of any Druid examining Dinas and Lavaine.

He brushed cat hairs off his robe, then turned suddenly on Dinas and Lavaine.

He had come with twenty spearmen, his interpreter, and, more surprisingly, with Dinas and Lavaine.

Cerdic, who had plainly come to the temple because Dinas and Lavaine had told him that Merlin was looking for treasure, ordered three of his own spearmen to help.

He ate little, but was always ready to talk, though never about Dinas and Lavaine, nor about the dreadful moment when Cerdic had sliced off the plait of his beard.

Lancelot scowled, Amhar and Loholt tried to look belligerent, while Dinas and Lavaine showed nothing but contempt on their hard faces.

Guinevere watched us carefully and her striking face betrayed nothing, though I suspect she felt as scornful as Dinas and Lavaine of this invented ceremony that was so dear to her husband.

King of Demetia, had come with a party of his dreaded Blackshields, while Lancelot, King of the Belgae, was escorted by a dozen giant men of his Saxon Guard and by the baleful pairs of twins, Dinas and Lavaine and Amhar and Loholt.

Ailleann, prayed with the Christians, while Dinas and Lavaine just stood, arms folded across their white robes, and stared at Ceinwyn who, just as on that day when she had run from her betrothal, wore neither gold nor silver.

I could not see Dinas, but he, I suspected, was with the other enemy spearmen at the rear of the hall, where they would be cutting off the escape of all the souls trapped inside.

Tell him I want the souls of Dinas and Lavaine, and if it is the last thing I do on this earth, I shall take them.

The King of Powys had embraced me and sworn his own revenge on Dinas and Lavaine.