{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Dynod son of Pabo''' ({{langx|cy|Dynod}} or ''Dunod ap Pabo''; {{langx|la|Dunaunt}}; died c. 595), better known as '''Dynod the Stout''' ({{langx|cy|Dynod Bwr}}) or '''Dynod Fawr''' was the ruler in the post-Roman Hen Ogledd ("Old North"). ''Regio Dunutinga'' was a region mentioned in the ''Life of Wilfrid''.<ref>Koch, John T. (2006), ''Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia'', ABC-CLIO, pp. 458, 904, {{ISBN| 978-1-85109-440-0}}</ref> It might be somewhere in the Peninnes. Alternatively P.N. Wood identifies Dunoting with the area of Craven.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wood|first=P. N.|date=1996-01-01|title=On the Little British Kingdom of Craven|journal=Northern History|volume=32|issue=1|pages=1–20|doi=10.1179/007817296790175155|issn=0078-172X}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=March 2023|reason=No, he doesn't. Woods locates "Regio Dunutinga" as being to the west of Craven. See pages 18-19 of the article cited}}
Dynod was a son of Pabo Post Prydain and is thought to have succeeded to his kingdom. He was the father of Saint Deiniol, founder of Bangor by Dwywai ferch Lleenog.<ref name=cdw/>
Dynod is mentioned in the Welsh Triads (TYP no.5) as one of the ‘Three Pillars of Battle’ of Ynys Prydain.<ref name=cdw>[https://www.library.wales/fileadmin/fileadmin/docs_gwefan/casgliadau/Drych_Digidol/Deunydd_print/Welsh_Classical_Dictionary/05_D-E-F.pdf "Dunod Fwr ap Pabo Post Prydyn. (500, d.595)", ''A Classical Welsh Dictionary'', p.235]</ref> He is also mentioned in a poem on the death of Urien of Rheged. Llywarch Hen says: "Let savage Unhwch guide me; It was said in Drws Llech, ‘Dunod ap Pabo does not retreat.’"<ref name=cdw/> After the assassination of Urien, Dynod is said to have invaded his kingdom of Rheged, doing battle against Urien's sons Owain and Pascent. He is said to have died at the hands of the Bernician Angles around AD 595.
Dynod is often confused with the abbot Saint Dunod of Bangor Iscoed mentioned by Bede. Archaeologist Craig Cessford suggests that Dynod may be the same individual as the baby Dinogad referred to in the early medieval Welsh lullaby Dinogad's Smock.<ref name="Cessford Westmorland">{{cite journal |last1=Cessford |first1=Craig |title=Dinogad's Smock |journal=Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Archaeological Society |date=1994 |volume=2 |issue=94 |pages=297–299 |url=https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/cumberland/contents.cfm?vol_id=742 |access-date=6 July 2021}}</ref>
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==External links== * "[https://web.archive.org/web/20111108032232/http://www.britannia.com/bios/ebk/dunaubpn.html St. Dunaut Bwr]" at Britannia
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