Rheged [WelshIPA: r̥ɛgɛd] was a Brythonic nation of Sub-Roman Britain, where the natives spoke Cumbric. It was situated in what is now north-western England, possibly extending into south-western Scotland. This was the homeland of the warrior monarch, Urien (in Latin, Urbgenius), as recorded in early Welsh poetry. Location The name Rheged appears regularly as an epithet of a certain Urien in a number of early Welsh poems and Royal genealogies. His victories over the Anglian… (More on Rheged)