When Vikings or Northmen settled in the Cotentin peninsula and the lower Seine around Rouen in the ninth and early tenth centuries, and these regions came to be known as Normandy, the name Armorica fell out of use in the area.
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North Armorica is mentioned in the first sentence of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake.
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Born in Armorica, he appears to have been married and to have had a military background - his Life makes his father, a minor Breton prince named Bican Farchog, Arthur's uncle on his mother's side.
He was one of the sons of Ithel Hael and he accompanied St Cadvan from Armorica to Wales He was a member of the college of Bardsey and he founded the church of Llandanwg in Ardudwy Merionethshire in which parish is situated the town of Harlech.