• Cad Goddeu (Middle Welsh: Kat Godeu, English: "The Battle of the Trees") is a medieval Welsh poem preserved in the 14th-century manuscript known as the...
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    Fourth Branch of The Mabinogi, along with the Taliesin poems (especially Cad Goddeu), contain hints of the cyclicality of cosmogonic progressions. With this...
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  • to war between Dyfed and Gwynedd. The similarly mythological epic poem Cad Goddeu describes a battle between Gwynedd and the forces of Annwn, led again...
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    leading to the Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees), which Arawn lost to Amaethon and his brother, Gwydion. The standard text of 'Cad Goddeu' in the Book of...
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  • a choir. The lyrics are based on a fragment of an archaic Welsh poem, Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees), and are sung in Sanskrit. The piece debuts during...
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    'fairy tree' often refers to the elder tree. The medieval Welsh poem Cad Goddeu (The Battle of the Trees) is believed to contain Celtic tree lore, possibly...
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  • Gyffes. He is also mentioned in the Welsh Triads and in the medieval poem Cad Goddeu. Lleu Llaw Gyffes has been placed under a tynged that he would never gain...
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  • "labourer" or "ploughman", and he is cited as being responsible for the Cad Goddeu, or "Battle of Trees", between the lord of the otherworld, Arawn, and...
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    Iolo ap Huw, who, every Halloween, "may be found cheering Cŵn Annwn over Cader Idris". In the Black Book of Carmarthen Gwyn states that his finest hound...
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  • Ronw (Gronw's Stone). Robert Graves and others consider lines 142–153 of Cad Goddeu to be a "Song of Blodeuwedd". Alan Garner's novel, The Owl Service (1967)...
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    from the White and Red Books are known as the Mabinogion. Poems such as Cad Goddeu (The Battle of the Trees) and mnemonic list-texts like the Welsh Triads...
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    son of Efrawg The Dream of Rhonabwy Geraint son of Erbin Other Taliesin Cad Goddeu Welsh Triads The Dream of Macsen Wledig Englynion y Beddau Giant tales...
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    son of Efrawg The Dream of Rhonabwy Geraint son of Erbin Other Taliesin Cad Goddeu Welsh Triads The Dream of Macsen Wledig Englynion y Beddau Giant tales...
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    Tysilio also makes Gorlois the father of Cador, who is thus Arthur's half-brother through Igraine; Cador's son Constantine succeeds Arthur as the high...
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    the twins Owain and Morfudd. Modron is connected with Euron in the poem Cad Goddeu (The Battle of the Trees), which associates her with characters known...
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    son of Efrawg The Dream of Rhonabwy Geraint son of Erbin Other Taliesin Cad Goddeu Welsh Triads The Dream of Macsen Wledig Englynion y Beddau Giant tales...
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  • head was considered the home of the soul. A number of texts relate to Cad Goddeu or, The Battle of the Trees, a conflict between Arawn, king of the otherworld...
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  • battle can be identified with the Cad Goddeu, the "Battle of the Trees", best known from the tenth-century poem Cad Goddeu. Arthur is mentioned towards the...
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  • son of Efrawg The Dream of Rhonabwy Geraint son of Erbin Other Taliesin Cad Goddeu Welsh Triads The Dream of Macsen Wledig Englynion y Beddau Giant tales...
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    son of Efrawg The Dream of Rhonabwy Geraint son of Erbin Other Taliesin Cad Goddeu Welsh Triads The Dream of Macsen Wledig Englynion y Beddau Giant tales...
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  • king of Britain during the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, Idris Gawr of Cader Idris, and Ysbaddaden Bencawr, the chief antagonist of the early Arthurian...
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    son of Efrawg The Dream of Rhonabwy Geraint son of Erbin Other Taliesin Cad Goddeu Welsh Triads The Dream of Macsen Wledig Englynion y Beddau Giant tales...
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  • John T. Koch suggests that a figure named Euron, attested in the poem Cad Goddeu in relation to Welsh goddess Modron, may ultimately derive from *u̯ironos...
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    son of Efrawg The Dream of Rhonabwy Geraint son of Erbin Other Taliesin Cad Goddeu Welsh Triads The Dream of Macsen Wledig Englynion y Beddau Giant tales...
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