The Outline of Mythology

Thomas Bulfinch's whole mythic world — the gods of Olympus, King Arthur's Round Table, the Mabinogeon, Beowulf and the paladins of Charlemagne — told as stories, the way 1913 read them.

Branwen, the Daughter of Llyr

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Branwen, the Daughter of Llyr

BENDIGEID VRAN, the son of Llyr, was the crowned king of this island, and he was exalted from the crown of London. And one afternoon he was…

Branwen, the Daughter of Llyr: Matholch

And they fixed upon Aberfraw as the place where she should become his bride. And they went thence, and towards Aberfraw the hosts…

Branwen, the Daughter of Llyr: Wales

And, behold, in the second year a tumult arose in Ireland, on account of the insult which Matholch had received in Wales, and the payment…

Branwen, the Daughter of Llyr: Irishmen

Then the Irish kindled a fire under the caldron of renovation, and they cast the dead bodies into the caldron until it was full; and the…

Branwen, the Daughter of Llyr: White

And Bendigeid Vran commanded them that they should cut off his head: "And take you my head," said he, "and bear it even unto the White…

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