Long occupation and intermarriage make the description 'Norman invaders' questionable here. By the later attack, the Norman families had lived in the area for 26 years. The suggested distinction is between Welsh-Welsh and Norman-Welsh factions, with ancestry overlapping across political divisions. This interpretation complicates an account based on separate invading and native populations.
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Mixed identities on the Norman-Welsh frontier
Decades of settlement and intermarriage make Aberystwyth's conflict more complicated than a simple divide between Norman invaders and Welsh locals.