In Welsh folklore, Macsen Wledig was a mythologized version of the Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus. One night in Rome, he dreamed of a beautiful maiden in a far-off land, and sent men all over the Earth to find her. She turned out to be a Welsh princess named Elen, and Macsen married her.

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In Welsh folklore, the Cauldron of Rebirth could resurrect the dead, but that person would return to life unable to speak. However, if a live person was placed in the Cauldron, that person and the cauldron would be destroyed. It was used in a war between Britain and Ireland.
🎨 Margaret Jones

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Hola de nuevo.
Otra entrada rápida para retomar el pulso al blog:
https://laitarca.blogspot.com/2026/02/pildoras-literarias-arawn-edicion.html
Una dosis de testosterona metalera hecha cómic.
Nos leemos.

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In Welsh mythology, the woman Blodeuwedd was created from the flowers of the broom, meadowsweet, and oak by the wizard Gwydion to marry his ward Lleu. However, Blodeuwedd fell in love with Gronw and tried to murder Lleu. As a punishment, Gwydion transformed her into the first owl.
🎨 Yuri Leitch

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"Alas," said they, "what is the mountain that is seen by the side of the ships?"

"Bran the Blessed, my brother," Branwen replied, "coming to shoal water [to rescue me]; there is no ship that can contain him in it."

"What is the lofty ridge with the lake on each side thereof?"

"On looking towards this island he is wroth, and his two eyes, one on each side of his nose, are the two lakes beside the ridge."

- The Mabinogion
🎨 Alan Lee

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While in the French Arthurian romances, Sir Percival had a vision of the Holy Grail dripping blood, his Welsh equivalent (Sir Peredur) instead had a vision of a man's severed head on a platter, who he discovered was his cousin, murdered by the Nine Witches of Caer Loyw.
🎨 Stephen Reid

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Math ap Mathonwy was the mightiest wizard in Welsh folklore, with the power to transform anyone into anything. He suffered under a strange restriction - Math needed to constantly rest his feet in the lap of a virgin unless he was at war, or he would die.
🎨 Margaret Jones

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"In the morning he arose, and when he went forth, behold a shower of snow had fallen the night before, and a hawk had killed a wild fowl in front of the cell. And the noise of the horse scared the hawk away, and a raven alighted upon the bird. And Peredur stood, and compared the blackness of the raven and the whiteness of the snow and the redness of the blood to the hair of the lady that best he loved, which was blacker than jet, and to her skin, which was whiter than the snow, and to the two red spots upon her cheeks, which were redder than the blood upon the snow appeared to be."
- "Peredur, Son of Efrawg" (Welsh folktale)

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