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 Gwyn ap Nudd: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In welsh mythology, gwythr ap greidawl was a rival of gwynn, the god of the underworld....
In later legends Gwyn is king of the tylwyth teg or "fair folk".
(math ap mathonwy was a king of gwynedd who needed to rest his feet in the lap of a virgin unless he was at war....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gw/gwyn_ap_nudd.htm   (902 words)

  
 Arthurian Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The chief scribe was one Hywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch of Builth and his hand has been identified in several other Welsh manuscripts, including in the White Book of Rhydderch where the original scribe had left a space.
There is a close correspondence between some of the texts in the Red and White Books (for example, their versions of the 'Mabinogion' and the Triads) and it is generally held that they derived independently from a lost common archetype.
The Arthurian interest in the Black Book of Carmarthen poem Ymddiddan Gwyddno Garanhir ac Gwyn fab Nudd ('The Dialogue of Gwyddno Garanhir and Gwynn ap Nudd') is found near to the end, in seven stanzas that are sometimes considered as a separate work, Mi a Wum ('I have been').
www.arthuriana.co.uk /concepts/arthlit.htm   (10466 words)

  
 3.04 Celtic References   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In Celtic Britain it is usually led by Cernunnos, the horned god.
In Wales it is led by Gwyn ap Nudd, and sometimes Bran.
After the Anglo-Saxons had settled in England, Cernunnos became Herne the Hunter.
www.darkfriends.net /wheel/3_sources/3.04_celtic.html   (695 words)

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