The Molmutine Laws are a body of law that the pseudohistorical Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth, written around 1136, attributes to Dyfnwal Moelmud, a legendary king of the Britons. Little authentic documentation of the laws survives, and later Welsh legal codes describe them as having been superseded by the laws of Hywel Da, who nonetheless retained Dyfnwal's units of measurement. According to Geoffrey, the laws made temples and cities places of sanctuary from death, granting pardon to the accused who reached them, and allowed women to rule among the Britons. Around 1800 the literary forger Iolo Morganwg claimed to have discovered a further version of the laws in the form of Welsh triads asserting principles of civil liberty, equality, and rights to common resources, a claim scholars regard with skepticism given Morganwg's documented history of fabrication. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Molmutine Laws were the laws said to have been instituted over the Britons by Dyfnwal Moelmud, who is also referred by the Latin form of his name, Dunvallo Molmutius (from which the Molmutine Laws take their title).
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The Molmutine Laws were the laws said to have been instituted over the Britons by Dyfnwal Moelmud, who is also referred by the Latin form of his name, Dunvallo Molmutius (from which the Molmutine Laws take their title).
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