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font-size:125%;"><i>Culhwch ac Olwen</i></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader">"Culhwch and Olwen"</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jesus-College-MS-111_00400_200v_(cropped)_Culhwch_ac_Olwen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Jesus-College-MS-111_00400_200v_%28cropped%29_Culhwch_ac_Olwen.jpg/250px-Jesus-College-MS-111_00400_200v_%28cropped%29_Culhwch_ac_Olwen.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Jesus-College-MS-111_00400_200v_%28cropped%29_Culhwch_ac_Olwen.jpg/375px-Jesus-College-MS-111_00400_200v_%28cropped%29_Culhwch_ac_Olwen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Jesus-College-MS-111_00400_200v_%28cropped%29_Culhwch_ac_Olwen.jpg/500px-Jesus-College-MS-111_00400_200v_%28cropped%29_Culhwch_ac_Olwen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="783" data-file-height="675" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">The opening lines of Culhwch and Olwen, from the Red Book of Hergest<br /><i>Kilydd mab Kelydon Wledig a fynnei wraig kyn mwyt ac ef. Sef gwraig a vynna oedd Goleudyd merch Anlawd Wledig.</i></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author(s)</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left">Anonymous</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Middle_Welsh" title="Middle Welsh">Middle Welsh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Date</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left">c. 11th–12th century</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Series</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/The_Mabinogion" class="mw-redirect" title="The Mabinogion">The Mabinogion</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Manuscript(s)</span></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/White_Book_of_Rhydderch" title="White Book of Rhydderch">White Book of Rhydderch</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Red_Book_of_Hergest" title="Red Book of Hergest">Red Book of Hergest</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Verse form</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left">Prose</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Text</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left"><i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Culhwch_and_Olwen" class="extiw" title="s:Culhwch and Olwen"><i>Culhwch ac Olwen</i></a></i> at <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Culhwch and Olwen</b></i> (<a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a>: <i lang="cy">Culhwch ac Olwen</i>) is a <a href="/wiki/Welsh-language_literature" title="Welsh-language literature">Welsh</a> tale that survives in only two manuscripts about a hero connected with <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">Arthur</a> and his warriors: a complete version in the <a href="/wiki/Red_Book_of_Hergest" title="Red Book of Hergest">Red Book of Hergest</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1400</span>, and a fragmented version in the <a href="/wiki/White_Book_of_Rhydderch" title="White Book of Rhydderch">White Book of Rhydderch</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1325</span>. It is the longest of the surviving Welsh prose tales. <a href="/wiki/Lady_Charlotte_Guest" title="Lady Charlotte Guest">Lady Charlotte Guest</a> included this tale among those she collected under the title <i>The <a href="/wiki/Mabinogion" title="Mabinogion">Mabinogion</a></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Culhwch_and_Olwen&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Culhwch" title="Culhwch">Culhwch</a>'s father, <a href="/wiki/Cilydd" class="mw-redirect" title="Cilydd">King Cilydd son of Celyddon</a>, loses his wife <a href="/wiki/Goleuddydd" title="Goleuddydd">Goleuddydd</a> after a difficult childbirth.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When he remarries, the young Culhwch rejects his stepmother's attempt to pair him with his new stepsister. Offended, the new queen puts a curse on him so that he can marry no one besides the beautiful <a href="/wiki/Olwen" title="Olwen">Olwen</a>, daughter of the <a href="/wiki/Giant_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Giant (mythology)">giant</a> <a href="/wiki/Ysbaddaden" title="Ysbaddaden">Ysbaddaden Pencawr</a>. Though he has never seen her, Culhwch becomes infatuated with her, but his father warns him that he will never find her without the aid of his famous cousin <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">Arthur</a>. The young man immediately sets off to seek his kinsman. He finds him at his court in <a href="/wiki/Celliwig" title="Celliwig">Celliwig</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ysbaddaden.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Ysbaddaden.jpeg/250px-Ysbaddaden.jpeg" decoding="async" width="250" height="377" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Ysbaddaden.jpeg/375px-Ysbaddaden.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Ysbaddaden.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="397" data-file-height="599" /></a><figcaption>Culhwch at Ysbaddaden's court. An illustration by <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Wallcousins" title="Ernest Wallcousins">E. Wallcousins</a> in <i>Celtic Myth & Legend</i>, Charles Squire, 1920 "<i>Horses shall I have, and chivalry; and my Lord and kinsman <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">Arthur</a> will obtain for me all these things. And I shall gain thy daughter, and thou shalt lose thy life.</i>" "<i>Go forward...and when thou hast compassed all these marvels, thou shalt have my daughter for thy wife.</i>"</figcaption></figure> <p>Arthur agrees to lend help in whatever capacity Culhwch asks, save the lending of his sword <a href="/wiki/Caledfwlch" class="mw-redirect" title="Caledfwlch">Caledfwlch</a> and other named armaments, or his wife.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He sends not only six of his finest warriors (<a href="/wiki/Sir_Kay" title="Sir Kay">Cai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bedivere" title="Bedivere">Bedwyr</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gawain" title="Gawain">Gwalchmei</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gwrhyr_Gwalstawd_Ieithoedd" title="Gwrhyr Gwalstawd Ieithoedd">Gwrhyr Gwalstawd Ieithoedd</a>, <a href="/wiki/Menw" title="Menw">Menw son of Tairgwaedd</a>, Cynddylig Gyfarwydd), but a huge list of personages of various skills (including <a href="/wiki/Gwynn_ap_Nudd" class="mw-redirect" title="Gwynn ap Nudd">Gwynn ap Nudd</a>) recruited to join Culhwch in his search for Olwen.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The group meets some relatives of Culhwch's that know Olwen and agree to arrange a meeting. Olwen is receptive to Culhwch's attraction, but she cannot marry him unless her father Ysbaddaden "Chief Giant" agrees, and he, unable to survive past his daughter's wedding, will not consent until Culhwch completes a series of about forty impossible-sounding tasks, including the obtaining of the basket/hamper of <a href="/wiki/Gwyddno_Garanhir" title="Gwyddno Garanhir">Gwyddneu Garanhir</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the hunt of <a href="/wiki/Ysgithyrwyn" title="Ysgithyrwyn">Ysgithyrwyn</a> chief boar.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The completion of only a few of these tasks is recorded and the giant is killed, leaving Olwen free to marry her lover. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scholarship">Scholarship</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Culhwch_and_Olwen&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Scholarship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The prevailing view among scholars was that the present version of the text was composed by the 11th century, making it perhaps the earliest Arthurian tale and one of <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>' earliest extant prose texts,<sup id="cite_ref-romance_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-romance-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but a 2005 reassessment by linguist Simon Rodway dates it to the latter half of the 12th century.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The title is a later invention and does not occur in early manuscripts.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The story is on one level a <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">folktale</a>, belonging to the bridal quest "the giant's daughter" tale type<sup id="cite_ref-ford-p013_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ford-p013-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (more formally categorized as <a href="/wiki/How_Six_Made_Their_Way_in_the_World" title="How Six Made Their Way in the World">Six Go through the Whole World</a> type, <a href="/wiki/Aarne-Thompson" class="mw-redirect" title="Aarne-Thompson">AT</a> 513A).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOwen196829_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOwen196829-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoomis201528_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoomis201528-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERodway201972–73_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodway201972–73-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The accompanying motifs (the strange birth, the jealous stepmother, the hero falling in love with a stranger after hearing only her name, helpful animals, impossible tasks) reinforce this typing.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ford-p013_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ford-p013-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, the bridal quest serves merely as a <a href="/wiki/Frame_story" title="Frame story">frame story</a> for the rest of the events that form the in-story,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKoch2014257_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKoch2014257-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where the title characters go largely unmentioned. The in-story is taken up by two long lists and the adventures of King Arthur and his men. One list is a roster of names, some two hundred of the greatest men, women, dogs, horses and swords in Arthur's kingdom recruited to aid Arthur's kinsman Culhwch in his bridal quest.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other is a list of "difficult tasks" or "marvels" (<i>pl.</i> <a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a>: <i lang="cy">anoethau, anoetheu</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKnightWiesner-Hanks198313_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKnightWiesner-Hanks198313-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoomis201528_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoomis201528-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> set upon Culhwch as requirements for his marriage to be approved by the bride's father Ysbaddaden. Included in this list are names taken from Irish legend, hagiography, and sometimes actual history. </p><p>The fight against the terrible boar <a href="/wiki/Twrch_Trwyth" title="Twrch Trwyth">Twrch Trwyth</a> certainly has antecedents in Celtic tradition, namely Arthur's boar-hunt with his hound <a href="/wiki/Cafall" class="mw-redirect" title="Cafall">Cafall</a>, whose footprint is discussed in the <i>Mirabilia</i> appended to the <i><a href="/wiki/Historia_Brittonum" title="Historia Brittonum">Historia Brittonum</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwichEvans1992lxvii_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwichEvans1992lxvii-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The description of Culhwch riding on his horse is frequently mentioned for its vividness, and features of the Welsh landscape are narrated in ways that are reminiscent of Irish onomastic narratives.<sup id="cite_ref-chadwick_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chadwick-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As for the passage where Culhwch is received by his uncle, King Arthur, at Celliwig, this is one of the earliest instances in literature or oral tradition of Arthur's court being assigned a specific location and a valuable source of comparison with the court of <a href="/wiki/Camelot" title="Camelot">Camelot</a> or <a href="/wiki/Caerleon" title="Caerleon">Caerleon</a> as depicted in later Welsh, English, and continental Arthurian legends.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cultural_influence">Cultural influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Culhwch_and_Olwen&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cultural influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Culhwch's horse-ride passage is reused in the 16th-century prose "parody" <i>Araith Wgon</i>, as well as in 17th-century poetic adaptations of that work.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The Tolkien scholar <a href="/wiki/Tom_Shippey" title="Tom Shippey">Tom Shippey</a> has pointed out the similarities between <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tale_of_Beren_and_L%C3%BAthien" class="mw-redirect" title="The Tale of Beren and Lúthien">The Tale of Beren and Lúthien</a></i>, one of the main cycles of <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_legendarium" title="Tolkien's legendarium">legendarium</a></i>, and <i>Culhwch and Olwen</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Culhwch_and_Olwen&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ouzel_of_Cilgwri_2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Ouzel_of_Cilgwri_2016.jpg/220px-Ouzel_of_Cilgwri_2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Ouzel_of_Cilgwri_2016.jpg/330px-Ouzel_of_Cilgwri_2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Ouzel_of_Cilgwri_2016.jpg/440px-Ouzel_of_Cilgwri_2016.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3313" data-file-height="3918" /></a><figcaption>Questioning the Ouzel of Cilgwri in <i>Culhwch and Olwen</i> by <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Jones_(artist)" title="Shirley Jones (artist)">Shirley Jones</a> (2016)</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>British painter/poet <a href="/wiki/David_Jones_(artist-poet)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Jones (artist-poet)">David Jones</a> (1895–1974) wrote a poem called "The Hunt" based on the tale of <i>Culwhch ac Olwen</i>. A fragment of a larger work, "The Hunt" takes place during the pursuit of the boar Twrch Trwyth by Arthur and the various war-bands of Celtic Britain and France.</li> <li>In 1988, <a href="/wiki/Gwyn_Thomas_(poet)" title="Gwyn Thomas (poet)">Gwyn Thomas</a> released a retelling of the story, <i>Culhwch ac Olwen</i>, which was illustrated by <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Jones_(artist)" title="Margaret Jones (artist)">Margaret Jones</a>. <i>Culhwch ac Olwen</i> won the annual <a href="/wiki/Tir_na_n-Og_Award" title="Tir na n-Og Award">Tir na n-Og Award</a> for Welsh language nonfiction in 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-winners_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-winners-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Shadow_play" title="Shadow play">shadow play</a> adaptation of <i>Culhwch and Olwen</i> toured schools in <a href="/wiki/Ceredigion" title="Ceredigion">Ceredigion</a> during 2003. The show was created by Jim Williams and was supported by <a href="/wiki/Theatr_Felinfach" title="Theatr Felinfach">Theatr Felinfach</a>.</li> <li>The tale of <i>Culhwch and Olwen</i> was adapted by Derek Webb in Welsh and English as a dramatic recreation for the reopening of <a href="/wiki/Narberth_Castle" title="Narberth Castle">Narberth Castle</a> in Pembrokeshire in 2005.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><i>The Ballad of Sir Dinadan</i> (2003), the fifth book of <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Morris" title="Gerald Morris">Gerald Morris</a>'s <i>The Squire's Tales</i> series, features an adaptation of Culhwch's quest.</li> <li><i>The Quest</i> (2016) is an <a href="/wiki/Artist%27s_book" title="Artist's book">artist's book</a> by <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Jones_(artist)" title="Shirley Jones (artist)">Shirley Jones</a> focusing on the quest, which is to find the whereabouts of the prisoner, Mabon, son of Modron, in <i>Culhwch and Olwen</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Culhwch_and_Olwen&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rhuawn_Bebyr" title="Rhuawn Bebyr">Rhuawn Bebyr</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Explanatory_notes">Explanatory notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Culhwch_and_Olwen&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Explanatory notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Arthur's other arms being his spear Rhongomyniad, his shield <a href="/wiki/Pridwen" title="Pridwen">Wynebgwrthucher</a>, and his dagger Carnwennan.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Which is one of the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Treasures_of_the_Island_of_Britain" title="Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain">Thirteen Hallows of Britain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuest1849353–355_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuest1849353–355-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">More than two hundred fifty names,<sup id="cite_ref-dillon&chadwick_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dillon&chadwick-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including two hundred thirty warriors.<sup id="cite_ref-knight2015_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-knight2015-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Culhwch_and_Olwen&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFFreeman2017" class="citation book cs1">Freeman, Philip (2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9qL_DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA205"><i>Celtic Mythology: Tales of Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes</i></a>. Oxford University Press. pp. <span class="nowrap">205–</span>6. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780190460471" title="Special:BookSources/9780190460471"><bdi>9780190460471</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 November</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Celtic+Mythology%3A+Tales+of+Gods%2C+Goddesses%2C+and+Heroes&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E205-%3C%2Fspan%3E6&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2017&rft.isbn=9780190460471&rft.aulast=Freeman&rft.aufirst=Philip&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D9qL_DQAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA205&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACulhwch+and+Olwen" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGuest1849">Guest (1849)</a>, pp. 249–257 "Kilhwch and Olwen".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFord1977">Ford (1977)</a>, pp. 119–121, <a href="#CITEREFFord2019">Ford (2019)</a>, pp. 115–117 tr. "Culhwch and Olwen".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJonesJones1993">Jones & Jones (1993)</a>, pp. 80–83; <a href="#CITEREFJones2011">Jones (2011)</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3Dt8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT101">unpaginated</a> tr. "Culhwch and Olwen".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGuest1849">Guest (1849)</a>, pp. 257–258; <a href="#CITEREFJonesJones1993">Jones & Jones (1993)</a>, p. 84; <a href="#CITEREFFord2019">Ford (2019)</a>, p. 119</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGuest1849">Guest (1849)</a>, pp. 258–269; <a href="#CITEREFJonesJones1993">Jones & Jones (1993)</a>, pp. 84–93; <a href="#CITEREFFord2019">Ford (2019)</a>, pp. 119–125</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuest1849353–355-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGuest1849353–355_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGuest1849">Guest (1849)</a>, pp. 353–355.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGuest1849">Guest (1849)</a>, pp. 280–292; <a href="#CITEREFFord2019">Ford (2019)</a>, pp. 130ff</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-romance-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-romance_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation, ed. James J. Wilhelm. 1994. 25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rodway, Simon, “The date and authorship of Culhwch ac Olwen: a reassessment”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 49 (Summer, 2005), pp. 21–44</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFDavies2004" class="citation journal cs1">Davies, Sioned (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HQf5d05PL9IC&pg=PA31">"Performing <i>Culhwch ac Olwen</i>"</a>. <i>Arthurian Literature</i>. <b>21</b>: 31. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781843840282" title="Special:BookSources/9781843840282"><bdi>9781843840282</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 December</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Arthurian+Literature&rft.atitle=Performing+Culhwch+ac+Olwen&rft.volume=21&rft.pages=31&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=9781843840282&rft.aulast=Davies&rft.aufirst=Sioned&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DHQf5d05PL9IC%26pg%3DPA31&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACulhwch+and+Olwen" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ford-p013-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ford-p013_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ford-p013_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFord2019">Ford (2019)</a> :"At the level of folktale, it belongs to a widely known type, “the giant's daughter.” A number of motifs known to students of the international folktale are clustered here: the jealous stepmother, love for an unknown and unseen maiden, the oldest animals, the helper animals, and the impossible tasks are perhaps the most obvious".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEOwen196829-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOwen196829_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFOwen1968">Owen (1968)</a>, p. 29.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoomis201528-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoomis201528_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoomis201528_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoomis2015">Loomis (2015)</a>, p. 28.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERodway201972–73-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERodway201972–73_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRodway2019">Rodway (2019)</a>, pp. 72–73.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRodway2019">Rodway (2019)</a>, p. 72: "jealous stepmother"; <a href="#CITEREFLoomis2015">Loomis (2015)</a>, p. 28: ""impossible obstacles, and the hero needs prodigiously endowed helpers".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKoch2014257-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKoch2014257_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKoch2014">Koch (2014)</a>, p. 257.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-dillon&chadwick-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-dillon&chadwick_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFDillonChadwick1967" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Myles_Dillon" title="Myles Dillon">Dillon, Myles</a>; <a href="/wiki/Nora_Kershaw_Chadwick" class="mw-redirect" title="Nora Kershaw Chadwick">Chadwick, Nora K.</a> (1967). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0m4TAQAAIAAJ&q=Culhwch+%22two+hundred%22"><i>The Celtic Realms</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Weidenfeld_%26_Nicolson" title="Weidenfeld & Nicolson">Weidenfeld & Nicolson</a>. pp. <span class="nowrap">283–</span>285.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Celtic+Realms&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E283-%3C%2Fspan%3E285&rft.pub=Weidenfeld+%26+Nicolson&rft.date=1967&rft.aulast=Dillon&rft.aufirst=Myles&rft.au=Chadwick%2C+Nora+K.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D0m4TAQAAIAAJ%26q%3DCulhwch%2B%2522two%2Bhundred%2522&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACulhwch+and+Olwen" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-knight2015-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-knight2015_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKnight2015" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Thomas_Knight" title="Stephen Thomas Knight">Knight, Stephen Thomas</a> (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_gacCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT39"><i>The Politics of Myth</i></a>. Berkeley: <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_University_Publishing" title="Melbourne University Publishing">Melbourne University Publishing</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-522-86844-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-522-86844-9"><bdi>978-0-522-86844-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Politics+of+Myth&rft.place=Berkeley&rft.pub=Melbourne+University+Publishing&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-0-522-86844-9&rft.aulast=Knight&rft.aufirst=Stephen+Thomas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D_gacCgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT39&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACulhwch+and+Olwen" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKnightWiesner-Hanks198313-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKnightWiesner-Hanks198313_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKnightWiesner-Hanks1983">Knight & Wiesner-Hanks (1983)</a>, p. 13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwichEvans1992lxvii-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwichEvans1992lxvii_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBromwichEvans1992">Bromwich & Evans (1992)</a>, p. lxvii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-chadwick-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-chadwick_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFChadwick1959" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Nora_Kershaw_Chadwick" class="mw-redirect" title="Nora Kershaw Chadwick">Chadwick, Nora</a> (1959). "Scéla Muicce Meicc Da Thó". In <a href="/wiki/Myles_Dillon" title="Myles Dillon">Dillon, Myles</a> (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dZJlAAAAMAAJq"><i>Irish Sagas</i></a>. Radio Éireann Thomas Davis Lectures. Irish Stationery Office. p. 89.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Sc%C3%A9la+Muicce+Meicc+Da+Th%C3%B3&rft.btitle=Irish+Sagas&rft.series=Radio+%C3%89ireann+Thomas+Davis+Lectures&rft.pages=89&rft.pub=Irish+Stationery+Office&rft.date=1959&rft.aulast=Chadwick&rft.aufirst=Nora&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DdZJlAAAAMAAJq&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACulhwch+and+Olwen" class="Z3988"></span>: "details of Ailbe's route.. recalls the course taken by the boar Twrch Trwyth in.. <i>Kuhlwch (sic.) and Olwen</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tom Shippey, <i>The Road to Middle Earth</i>, pp. 193–194: "The hunting of the great wolf recalls the chase of the boar <a href="/wiki/Twrch_Trwyth" title="Twrch Trwyth">Twrch Trwyth</a> in the Welsh <i>Mabinogion</i>, while the motif of 'the hand in the wolf's mouth' is one of the most famous parts of the <i>Prose Edda</i>, told of <a href="/wiki/Fenrir" title="Fenrir">Fenris Wolf</a> and the god <a href="/wiki/T%C3%BDr" title="Týr">Tyr</a>; Huan recalls several faithful hounds of legend, <a href="/wiki/Garmr" title="Garmr">Garm</a>, Gelert, Cafall."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-winners-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-winners_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120310093112/http://www.cllc.org.uk/gwasanaethau-services/plant-children/gwobrau-prizes/tir-na-nog/rhestr-list">"Tir na n-Og awards Past Winners"</a>. <i>Welsh Book Council</i>. cllc.org.uk. 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Simon (1992). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zzkcAQAAIAAJ"><i>Culhwch and Olwen: An Edition and Study of the Oldest Arthurian Tale</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wales_Press" title="University of Wales Press">University of Wales Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7083-1127-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-7083-1127-X"><bdi>0-7083-1127-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Culhwch+and+Olwen%3A+An+Edition+and+Study+of+the+Oldest+Arthurian+Tale&rft.pub=University+of+Wales+Press&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=0-7083-1127-X&rft.aulast=Bromwich&rft.aufirst=Rachel&rft.au=Evans%2C+D.+Simon&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DzzkcAQAAIAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACulhwch+and+Olwen" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFord1977" class="citation book cs1">Ford, Patrick K. (1977). <i>Culhwch and Olwen</i> (2 ed.). Berkeley: <a href="/wiki/University_of_California_Press" title="University of California Press">University of California Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-520-03414-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-520-03414-7"><bdi>0-520-03414-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Culhwch+and+Olwen&rft.place=Berkeley&rft.edition=2&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=1977&rft.isbn=0-520-03414-7&rft.aulast=Ford&rft.aufirst=Patrick+K.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACulhwch+and+Olwen" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">|work=</code> ignored (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#periodical_ignored" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFord2019" class="citation book cs1">—— (2019) [1977]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XfGZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113"><i>Culhwch and Olwen</i></a> (2 ed.). Berkeley: <a href="/wiki/University_of_California_Press" title="University of California Press">University of California Press</a>. pp. <span class="nowrap">113–</span>150. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-30958-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-520-30958-6"><bdi>978-0-520-30958-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Culhwch+and+Olwen&rft.place=Berkeley&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E113-%3C%2Fspan%3E150&rft.edition=2&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=2019&rft.isbn=978-0-520-30958-6&rft.aulast=Ford&rft.aufirst=Patrick+K.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DXfGZDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA113&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACulhwch+and+Olwen" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">|work=</code> ignored (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#periodical_ignored" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGuest1849" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Lady_Charlotte_Guest" title="Lady Charlotte Guest">Guest, Charlotte</a> (1849). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=aFUAAAAAcAAJ&q=Ysbaddaden&pg=PA249"><i>Killhwch and Olwen, or the Twrch Trwyth</i></a>. 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title="Gawain">Gwalchmei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafgan" title="Hafgan">Hafgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hefeydd" title="Hefeydd">Hefeydd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hueil_mab_Caw" title="Hueil mab Caw">Hueil mab Caw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hychddwn" title="Hychddwn">Hychddwn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyddwn" title="Hyddwn">Hyddwn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iddog_ap_Mynio" title="Iddog ap Mynio">Iddog ap Mynio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idris_Gawr" title="Idris Gawr">Idris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llefelys" title="Llefelys">Llefelys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lleu_Llaw_Gyffes" title="Lleu Llaw Gyffes">Lleu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ll%C5%B7r" title="Llŷr">Llŷr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lludd_Llaw_Eraint" title="Lludd Llaw Eraint">Lludd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llwyd_ap_Cil_Coed" title="Llwyd ap Cil Coed">Llwyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mabon_ap_Modron" title="Mabon ap Modron">Mabon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madoc_ap_Uthyr" title="Madoc ap Uthyr">Madoc ap 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title="Peredur">Peredur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pryderi" title="Pryderi">Pryderi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pwyll" title="Pwyll">Pwyll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhiannon" title="Rhiannon">Rhiannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Cyllin" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Cyllin">Saint Cyllin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Eigen" title="Saint Eigen">Saint Eigen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanddef" title="Sanddef">Sanddef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seithenyn" title="Seithenyn">Seithenyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taliesin" title="Taliesin">Taliesin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tegid_Foel" title="Tegid Foel">Tegid Foel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teyrnon" title="Teyrnon">Teyrnon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ysbaddaden" title="Ysbaddaden">Ysbaddaden</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#c1e6c1;;width:1%">Animals and<br />creatures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" 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