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-Elfydd: The Earth; the realm of humans -Annwn: The Otherworld; the realm(s) of the gods.Depending on the source, this could be a more typical Indo-European underworld (i.e. a realm below the earth), or the "deep" areas within the natural realm (e.g. deep within the woods, as with the First Branch of The Mabinogi, or within/near lakes, e.g. the Arthurian Lady of the Lake, Ceridwen in Hanes ...
Mark Baker has written a number of works about the castle and its occupants, including; Gwrych Castle: A Pictorial History (2000), [65] The rise and fall of Gwrych Castle, Abergele, North Wales: including Winifred, Countess of Dundonald: a biography (2003), [66] and Myths and Legends of the Gwrych Castle Estate: An Archaeological, Historical ...
Llyn Ogwen (Welsh: [ˈɬɪn ˈɔɡʊɛn]) is a ribbon lake in north-west Wales. It lies alongside the A5 road between two mountain ranges of Snowdonia , the Carneddau and the Glyderau . Somewhat unusually, the county boundary at this point is drawn so that the lake itself lies in the county of Gwynedd , but all the surrounding land (excluding ...
Y Tylwyth Teg illustration. Welsh folklore is the collective term for the folklore of the Welsh people.It encompasses topics related to Welsh mythology, folk tales, customs, and oral tradition.
Gelert by Charles Burton Barber (c.1894). Gelert (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡɛlɛrt]) is a legendary hound in a Welsh folk-tale.He is associated with the village of Beddgelert in Gwynedd in north-west Wales, the name of which was formerly believed to mean "Gelert's grave". [1]
Iolo Morganwg, who revived Welsh bardic traditions during the 18th and 19th centuries, popularised a version of the myth that had Hu Gadarn's two long-horned oxen drag the afanc from the lake, enabling it to be killed. An earlier variation on this had the oxen cast the afanc into Llyn Ffynnon Las (lake of the blue fountain), where it was unable ...
Legends of the land suggest that it may have extended 20 miles west of the present coast. [2] There are several versions of the myth. The earliest known form of the legend is usually said to appear in the Black Book of Carmarthen, in which the land is referred to as Maes Gwyddno (Welsh for 'the Plain of Gwyddno'). In this version, the land was ...
Scholars agree that the tales are older than the existing manuscripts, but disagree over just how much older. It is clear that the different texts included in the Mabinogion originated at different times (though regardless their importance as records of early myth, legend, folklore, culture, and language of Wales remains immense).