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	British Druid Order: Mabinogion - Manawyddan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Manawyddan restores Rhiannon, Pryderi and the land of Dyfed by capturing the wife of the enchanter who has caused their disappearance and threatening to hang her if he does not remove his spell.
		Then began Manawyddan and Rhiannon to sit and to talk together, and from their discourse his mind and his thoughts became warmed towards her, and he thought in his heart he had never beheld any lady more fulfilled of grace and beauty than she.
		But when the cordwainers perceived that their gains were failing (for as Manawyddan shaped the work, so Pryderi stitched it), they came together and took counsel, and agreed that they would slay them.
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	Manawyddan: a Cymric god, also known as Manawyddan fab Llŷr, Manannán mac Lír (He who came from ...
		When Cigfa, Pryderi's wife saw that there was none but Manawyddan and herself left she became fearful until Manawyddan reassured her that he would not molest her, for as he is a friend to Pryderi, thus shall he be a friend to her.
		Manawyddan was preparing to hang the mouse upon the Gorsedd of Narberth when a poor clerk wandered along (the first other human he had seen in Dyfed in seven years) who failed to persuade or bribe him to let it go, followed by a priest and finally a bishop.
		Manawyddan is again named as one of Arthur's men in the poem Pa Gur yw y Porthawr (What man is the porter) from the Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin in the followin stanzas: Manawidan ab llyr/oet duis y cusil.
	www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_m/manawyddan.html (1428 words)

	Welsh Deities
		Manawyddan was often identified with the Irish god, Manannan, though the Irish and Welsh stories were different and unrelated to one another.
		Manawyddan was the brother of Bran and Branwen.
		Manawyddan appeared in the Welsh tale from the Mabinogion, called Branwen Daughter of Llyr, as one of the survivors in the war against Ireland.
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	X. Manawyddan. The Mabinogeon. Vol. III: The Age of Chivalry. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable
		Now Manawyddan returned from the war in Ireland, and he found that his cousin had seized all his possessions, and much grief and heaviness came upon him.
		Then began Manawyddan and Rhiannon to sit and to talk together; and his mind and his thoughts became warmed towards her, and he thought in his heart he had never beheld any lady more fulfilled of grace and beauty than she.
		But when the cordwainers perceived that their gains were failing (for as Manawyddan shaped the work, so Kicva stitched it), they came together and took counsel, and agreed that they would slay them.
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	The Religion of the Ancient Celts, J. A. MacCulloch - Section 6 of 24 - Book Club/Religion - ArcaMax Publishing
		Branwen, departing with the bearers, dies of a broken heart at Anglesey, and meanwhile Caswallyn, son of Beli, seizes the kingdom.[338] Two of the bearers of the head are Manawyddan and Pryderi, whose fortunes we follow in the _Mabinogi_ of the former.
		Manawyddan, with Pryderi's wife Kieva, set out as shoemakers, but are forced to abandon this craft on account of the envy of the craftsmen.
		Elsewhere Caer Sidi is associated with Manawyddan and Pryderi, perhaps a reference to their connection as father and son.[401] Thus Pryderi and Pwyll belong to the bright Elysium, and may once have been gods of fertility associated with the under-earth region, which was by no means a world of darkness.
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	Celtic Myth and Legend: The British Gods: Chapter XIX. The War of Enchantments
		Manawyddan was now the sole survivor of the family of Llyr.
		Manawyddan seems to have found her attractive, while Rhiannon was not less taken with the son of Llyr.
		Manawyddan put the noose round the mouse's neck, and was just going to draw it up, when he saw a bishop coming, with his whole retinue.
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	Celtic Myth
		Fand - Mistress of the tides,wife of Manawyddan.
		Branwen - (white raven) a daughter of Llyr and Penarddun, and sister of Bran, and Manawydan, and half-sister of Nisien and Efnisien.
		Manawyddan is associated with the sea and the Otherworld, which are ever connected in the Celtic mind.
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	IX. Branwen, the Daughter of Llyr. The Mabinogeon. Vol. III: The Age of Chivalry. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable
		And with him were his brother, Manawyddan, the son of Llyr, and his brothers by the mother’s side, Nissyen and Evnissyen, and many nobles likewise, as was fitting to see around a king.
		And beside that, as an atonement for the insult, he shall have a staff of silver as large and as tall as himself, and a plate of gold of the breadth of his face.
		And from Manawyddan the boy was called by Nissyen, the son of Euroswydd, and the boy went unto him lovingly.
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	A Welsh Myth Concordance
		In the end, he is defeated by the cleverness of Manawyddan who capture's Llwyd's wife, in the shape of a mouse, and extracts from the Grey Man his promise to take no vengeance on the land and people of Dyved.
		She is mother to Bran, Manawyddan, Branwen, and (by Eurosswydd) Nissyen and Evnissyen.
		Manawyddan rescued her from capture by the Grey Man of the Bright World.
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	Master of Wiccan Studies Course - UNIVERSAL LIFE CHURCH SEMINARY
		Manawyddan falls in love with her and they get married.
		To give a bit of perspective, Manawyddan was trained by the Druids, and would have been a Druid had he not been the Kings brother.
		Manawyddan falls in love with her and does so.
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	MANAWYDDAN,
		Lorsqu'il fut de retour, Manawyddan et lui se mirent aux festins et aux délassements.
		Manawyddan se mit à façonner des arçons et à les colorer en bleu émaillé comme il l'avait vu faire à Llasar Llaesgygwyd.
		Manawyddan enroula la ficelle autour du cou de la souris.
	www.nordic-life.org /nmh/ManawyddanBil.htm (9126 words)

	Manawyddan the Son of Llyr - The Mabinogion - Ancinet-Mythology.com
		Let us go and see.” So they came into the hall, and there was no man; and they went on to the castle and to the sleeping-place, and they saw none; and in the mead-cellar and in the kitchen there was nought but desolation.
		And when he had taken hold of it his hands stuck to the bowl, and his feet to the slab on which the howl was placed, and all his joyousness forsook him, so that he could not utter a word.
		When Kicva the daughter of Gwynn Gloyw saw that there was no one in the palace but herself and Manawyddan, she sorrowed so that she cared not whether she lived or died.
	www.ancient-mythology.com /celtic/mabinogion/manawyddan.php (4301 words)

	The Escape of the Mouse
		Manawyddan the prince and his friend Pryderi were wanderers, for the brother of Manawyddan had been slain, and his throne taken from him.
		But luckily Manawyddan got word of it, and he and Kicva left the town one night and proceeded to Narberth, taking with him a sheaf of wheat, which he sowed in three plots of ground.
		Manawyddan was placing the cross-beam on the two forked sticks, where the mouse was to hang, when a priest rode past.
	www.rickwalton.com /folktale/lilac29.htm (2952 words)

	Ghost from the Past
		Manawyddan (in a voice deliberately strained and pretending to be cutting): "Madam." We see Rhiannon from his point of view, doubled up in laughter and flapping her long hands in dismay.
		Manawyddan (shaking with laughter and pretending it's outrage): "I have something to say." His voice raises in a squeak of pained desperation at the end, and it now continues in the same comic tone.
		Manawyddan turns toward the camera and moves his head slightly from side to side as if recognizing a lineup of acquaintances by looking at all their faces.
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	Early Welsh Manuscripts, Part II
		These are The Tale of Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed; The Tale of Branwen, daughter of Llyr; The Tale of Manawyddan, the son of Llyr; The Tale of Math, son of Mathonwy; The Contention of Lludd and Llefelys; The Story of Kilhwch and Olwen; and The Dream of Rhonabwy.
		Bran, Branwen and Manawyddan are the children of Llyr, the sea god and mythical king of the early Britons, who later found another manifestation as Shakespeare's King Lear.
		Manawyddan is more familiar as Mannamán Mac Lir, who drives his chariot across the wave tops to his home on the Ilse of Man.
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	Gods of the Britons
		Branwen, departing with the bearers, dies of a broken heart at Anglesey, and meanwhile Caswallyn, son of Beli, seizes the kingdom.[338] Two of the bearers of the head are Manawyddan and Pryderi, whose fortunes we follow in the Mabinogi of the former.
		In the two Mabinogi these personages are Llyr, his sons Bran and Manawyddan, his daughter Branwen, their half-brothers Nissyen and Evnissyen, sons of Llyr’s wife Penardim, daughter of Beli, by a previous marriage with Eurosswyd.
		In the Dream of Maxen, the sons of Beli are Lludd, Caswallawn, Nynnyaw, and Llevelys.[403] Geoffrey calls Beli Heli, and speaks of an earlier king Belinus, at enmity with his brother Brennius.[404] But probably Beli or Heli and Belinus are one and the same, and both represent the earlier god Belenos.
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	Manawyddan ab Llyr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Manawyddan, besides being the principal hero in one of the Mabinogi, is the subject of two Triads, in one of which his singular adventures are thus alluded to:-
		Having become a bard after the captivity of his brother Bran, he would not afterwards resume his rank, although he might have done so.
		Manawyddan is mentioned in the Dialogue between Arthur, Kai, and Glewlwyd; and his name occurs in connection with that of Pryderi in the poem on the Sons of Llyr, "Kerdd meib Llyr," of Taliesin.
	www.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/infopedia/m/manawyddan.htm (101 words)

	Rhíannon's Official Web Site : The Saga
		Rhíannon, Kieva, Pryderi and Manawyddan were the only living souls left in the land, and when they had exhausted their provisions they set
		Rhíannon grew uneasy when her son did not return and, after reproaching Manawyddan for not going to his aid, herself entered the fortress.
		Fortunately Manawyddan succeeded in breaking the spell on Dyvett: this had been cast by Llywyt, son of Kilcoet, to avenge Gwawl.
	www.rhiannon.ie /saga.htm (1562 words)

	THE ESCAPE OF THE MOUSE from Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
		Right gladly did she consent, and without delay they were married, and rode away to the hunt, Rhiannon and Manawyddan, Kieva and Pryderi, and they would not be parted from each other by night or by day, so great was the love between them.
		When Kieva, the wife of Pryderi, found that neither her husband nor his mother returned to her, she was in such sorrow that she cared not whether she lived or died.
		But luckily Manawyddan got word of it, and he and Kieva left the town one night and proceeded to Narberth, taking with him a sheaf of wheat, which he sowed in three plots of ground.
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	Celtic Storys The Mabinogion Manawyddan the Son of Llyr
		Let us go and see." So they came to the castle, and saw no man, and into the hall, and to the sleeping-place, and there was none; and in the mead-cellar and in the kitchen there was naught but desolation.
		And when they had consumed their feast and all their provisions, they fed upon the prey they killed in hunting, and the honey of the wild swarms.
		Take up one that is seemly." "None other will I take," answered he, "but that of making shoes." "Lord," said she, "such a craft becomes not a man so nobly born as thou." "By that however will I abide," said he.
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	Welsh mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pryderi and Manawyddan return to Dyfed, where Pryderi marries Cigfa and Manawyddan marries Rhiannon.
		Manawyddan and Cigfa return to England as shoemakers, but once again the locals drive them out and they return to Dyfed.
		Manawyddan keeps watch over the third field, and when he sees it destroyed by mice he catches their leader and decides to hang it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Welsh_mythology (1707 words)

	Mabinogion - Manawyddan Son of Llyr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		They set forth, and, however long the journey, they came at length to Dyfed, and a feast was prepared for them against their coming to Narberth, which Rhiannon and Cicfa had provided.
		When Cicfa the daughter of Gwynn Gloew saw that there was no one in the palace but herself and Manawyddan, she sorrowed so that she cared not whether she lived or died.
		Now Manawyddan, when he set out to return to Dyfed, took with him a burden of wheat.
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	FaerieTalker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Don, Danu or Dana, born about 1850 BC, was Mother of the Tuatha De Danann who took Ireland from the Firbolgs forcing the Firbolgs to escape into fairyland as giant grotesque spirit beings.
		Manawyddan married the fairy Rhiannon and had a son, Owel The Druid.
		After the migration her grandfather, Manawyddan, was made king of the fairies.
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	Cigfa: a Cymric heroine of the Mabinogi, also known as Kicva (She of the Feast)
		After the events of the Mabinogi of Branwen ferch Llŷr, Manawyddan is the only man left without a realm and Pryderi offers his own realm to Manawyddan and gifts him his mother, Rhiannon to be Manawyddan's wife.
		Whereupon Pwyll and Manawyddan come to the seven cantrefs of Dyfed where Rhiannon and Cigfa prepare a feast for them.
		hen Pwyll and Manawyddan depart for Oxford to pay homage to Caswallon fab Beli who, after Brân's death is now king of Britain.
	www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_c/cigfa.html (801 words)

	The Mabinogion
		Manawyddan fab lyr tells the story of what happened when Pryderi and Manawyddan returned from Ireland, how Dyfed was cursed and released.
		It also shows the different ways that the characters reacted to their situation, and it is Manawyddan's calm and foresight which succeeds in lifting the curse.
		This story describes a slightly different world than that in the first three branches, where the Children of Don, not the Children of Llyr are the dominant family in Gwynedd.
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	Manawyddan, The Son of Llyr
		Then he showed her how his fields had been wasted and destroyed, and how the mice came to the last of the fields in his sight.
		Do therefore, lord, as thou wilt." "If I knew of any cause in the world wherefore thou shouldst succour it, I would take thy counsel concerning it," said Manawyddan, "but as I know of none, lady, I am minded to destroy it." "Do.
		And as he was placing,the crossbeam upon the two forks, behold a priest came towards him upon a horse covered with trappings.
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	The Mabinogion - Branwen The daughter of Llyr
		The King of the Island of the Mighty and Manawyddan the son of Llyr, on one side, and Matholwch on the other side, and Branwen the daughter of Llyr beside him.
		And from Manawyddan the boy was called by Nissyen the son of Eurosswydd, and the boy went unto him lovingly.
		Now the seven men that escaped were Pryderi, Manawyddan, Gluneu Eil Taran, Taliesin, Ynawc, Grudyen the son of Muryel, and Heilyn the son of Gwynn Hen.
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	Manawyddan fab Llyr
		HEN the seven men of whom we spoke above had buried the head of Bendigeid Vran, in the White Mount in London, with its face towards France; Manawyddan gazed upon the town of London, and upon his companions, and heaved a great sigh; and much grief and heaviness came upon him.
		It were better for us to go to another town to maintain ourselves." So they four went to another city.
		"Of a truth," answered Pryderi, "I cannot thus give up my dogs." And for all the counsel that Manawyddan gave him, yet to the castle he went.
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	Manawyooan the Son of LLYR
		He made the blue enamel as it was made by the other man. And therefore is it still called Calch Llasar [blue enamel], because Llasar Llaesgywydd had wrought it.
		Thus they spent a month, and they gathered their dogs around them, and tarried there one year.
		Manawyddan waited for him till near the close of the day, and late in the evening, being certain that he should have no tidings of Pryderi or of the dogs, he went back to the palace.
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	I Still Wake From My Nightmares, part 7 of 8
		Manawyddan turned and gave me one last glance before he mounted his horse and followed Math down the mountain.
		She knew I was sweet on Manawyddan, for one thing, and she was my friend.
		But now at least word would be out about me, and robbers and rapists would be more careful, not wanting a capital offense over their heads for picking on the wrong victim.
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