Brewer's: Elidure

(3 syl.). A legendary king of Britain, advanced to the throne in place of his elder brother, Arthgallo, supposed by him to be dead. Arthgallo, after a long exile, returned to his country, and Elidure resigned to him the throne. Wordsworth has a poem on the subject.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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