The Molmutine Laws were the laws said to have been instituted over the Britons by Dyfnwal Moelmud. Very little remains known of these laws, with surviving Welsh codes simply noting that Dyfnwal's laws were largely superseded by the new codes instituted by Hywel Dda. Hywel was said, however, to have retained Dyfnwal's units of measurement.
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History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical History of the Kings of Britain describes Dyfnwal as its "Dunvallo Molmutius". In his account, one of the Molmutine Laws declared that the temples of the gods and cities should act as sanctuaries from death. Furthermore, anyone who fled to a temple for being accused of a crime must be pardoned by the accuser upon departure from the temple. This law soon included all roads leading to temples and all farmers were declared safe from such crimes. Geoffrey credited the British Trojans as the original source of many of Dyfnwal's laws, including one allowing the reign of queens.
Welsh triads
Reference to Dyfnwal Moelmud (King of the Britons who reigned 500-400BC) and his Molmutine Laws can be found in the Tysilio chronicle written in the 7th century and in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (completed by c. 1139).Many pseudo historians have misleadingly tried to claim that his laws were somehow fabricated by the bard/writer Iolo Morgannwg around the year 1800 - a physical impossibility due to the fact that Welsh British history clearly documents Dyfnwal Moelmud and his laws many centuries earlier.They are given in the form of triads and include: