Welsh mythology manages to win her hand at the expense of Gwawl, to whom she is betrothed, and she bears him a son, but the child disappears soon after his birth.
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11 Facts About Welsh mythology
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Welsh mythology has been waging magical war against Dyfed because he is a friend of Gwawl, whom Pwyll, Pryderi's father, humiliated.
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Welsh mythology's then tells him he will never have a wife of any race living on Earth, so Gwydion and Math make him a wife from flowers, called Blodeuwedd.
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Welsh mythology kills Gronw with his spear, which is thrown so hard it pierces him through the stone he is hiding behind.
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Welsh mythology gets the dragons drunk on mead and buries them in Dinas Emrys in what is North Wales.
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Welsh mythology makes her join him on a long and dangerous trip and commands her not to speak to him.
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Welsh had been Christian for several centuries before their former mythology was written down, and their gods had long been transformed into kings and heroes of the past.
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Welsh mythology folklore includes a number of tales that were preserved and told by the cyfarwyddiaid, who were tasked with conserving the traditional historical material, the accepted myth of the Welsh mythology past, and sharing the corresponding stories, being considered as historians themselves.
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Tales of Welsh mythology lore were shared as proverbs and songs, in addition to simple spoken stories.
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Welsh mythology folklore was often compared to Irish literature of similar value.
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The Welsh mythology cyfarwyddiaid were thus considered awenyddion, able to deliver prophetic speech in a possessed state of awen.
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