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(#Cai) "the Tall" was endowed with magical powers & a wound from his sword would never heal. A slayer of giants & friend of & with whom he had many adventures, including riding a magical salmon & hunting the Twrch Trwyth ...

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2022-02-01


Bran Fendigaid is a hero of mythology. were his symbols & brought him messages from his imprisoned sister Branwen. After his death, Bran's severed head was buried where the Tower of London (with resident ravens) is situated.

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2022-01-19

...birth, rebirth & resurrection feature prominently in the stories from my selection of five fave characters of the Mabinogion for

A YEAR & A DAY : https://t.co/CB5gGQj9Yh

new life, birth, beginnings &

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2022-01-06

Alan Lee ~ from The Lady and the Fountain ~ Dragon’s Dream ~ 1982. The Mabinogion.

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2021-11-23

Gwydion was a warrior-magician and bardic god of wisdom in the Mabinogion. He was taught wizardry from Math. Using magics, he created Blodeuwedd from broom, meadowsweet and oak blossom as a wife for Llew. His sacred tree is the ash.

🎨 by Alan Lee

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2021-11-17


The mythical boar - which had toxic bristles & shears, a comb & a razor on its head & back - ran riot across Ireland & Wales ..... It was eventually driven into the sea off the coast of

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2021-11-10


Despite warnings that nobody who entered the Hedge of Mist ever returned, entered it in search of enchanted geese that lived there, defeated a tyrant knight, rescued a captive maiden .... then returned to his true love

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2021-11-09

"Mabon the son of Modron spurred his steed and snatched his razor from him" (Mabinogion)

The salmon of Llyn Llyw knows where Mabon is held & helps King Arthur & his men to free Modron's son who plays a crucial part in the quest for the hand of fair Olwen

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2021-09-23

Maesteg artist Christopher Williams (1873–1934) painted three women from the Mabinogion. This is Blodeuwedd, the woman of flowers, in the collection of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery. We lucky moderns can now buy blodeuwedd beach towels. https://t.co/W6Jdc0u7p6

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2021-09-11

OWL SERVICE When Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers The Owl Service, 1960, was born from the legend of the MABINOGION Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl

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2021-07-26


knight inner heat was legendary - when it rained hardest, whatever he carried remained dry ... and "when his companions were coldest, he was to them as fuel with which to light their fire ...."

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2021-06-25


In the friendship of Arthurian knights & can be interpreted many ways .... but they have a very close & intense friendship & their exploits bind them together ...

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2021-06-22

It assisted Arthurian knights Cei & Bedwyr in their endeavours according to the

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2021-06-16

Suite aux discussions cette semaine de et de sur l'illustration du chapitre 334 de Seven Deadly Sins, j'ai écrit un petit texte (en français :p) sur l'utilisation du Mabinogion par Suzuki :
https://t.co/6irswZPShJ

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2021-05-09

"Branwen's Messenger" by Margaret Jones
from Tales from The Mabinogion by Gwyn Thomas & Kevin Crossley Holland

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2021-04-08

Happy
Having trouble sleeping? Rhiannon, a major character in medieval Welsh tales the Mabinogion, can help. Her magical birds - Adar Rhiannon - are supernatural in nature and their sweet song can awaken the dead or lull the living to sleep for 7 years

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2021-03-09


Welsh sorceress was hardly a model mother .... persistently trying to "cure" her son of his "ugliness" through her potions & putting her baby in a leather bag & throwing him into the sea (luckily he survived) ....

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2021-03-03

In the MABINOGION Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl Blodeuwedd. When Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers The Owl Service 1960 was born

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2021-02-23

Alan Lee's illustrations of the Mabinogion

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2021-02-22