"In the Mabinogi, it is in the two branches which tell of the northern families that one reads of stormy passions and violent deeds, interludes of timeless bliss and tragic deaths. The southern family of the Mabinogi, that of Pwyll, has to counter with submission, self-restraint and patient persistence the antagonism of the mysterious powers of Annwfn, on the one hand, and of villein craftsmen on the other. Pwyll's son, Pryderi, finding himself duped by Gwydion, son of Dôn, wages war on Gwynedd and, like Mug and Eber in Ireland, is defeated and slain." - from Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales by Alwyn Rees and Brinley Rees (1961) #fourbranches #mabinogi #pwyll #pryderi #annwfn #family

"...The southern family of the Mabinogi, that of Pwyll, has to counter with submission, self-restraint and patient persistence the antagonism of the mysterious powers of Annwfn,..."
- from Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales
by A. Rees and B. Rees (1961)

#mabinogi #pwyll #annwfn

"... This is the presence of a supernatural otherworld, populated by beings similar to humans but with magical powers and eternal youth, which regularly interacts with the human one to which it acts as a parallel realm. In Ireland this was, in one of its manifestations, the home of the Túatha Dé Danann, while in Wales it was commonly called Annwn or Annwfn. It becomes slightly more assimilated to Christian cosmology as time goes on: in the fourteenth-century poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym it is much more clearly an underworld, with demonic overtones, than it is in the (almost certainly) twelfth-century Four Branches of the Mabinogi, where it seems to exist in a neighbouring dimension. " - from Pagan Britain by Ronald Hutton (2013) #otherworld #celtic #annwn #annwfn #mabinogi #literature #wales

"In Ireland this was, in one of its manifestations, the home of the Túatha Dé Danann, while in Wales it was commonly called Annwn or Annwfn."
- from Pagan Britain
by Ronald Hutton (2013)

#otherworld #celtic #annwn #annwfn #mabinogi #literature #wales