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She was the mother of a hideous son, Mordfran, and a beautiful daughter, <a href="/wiki/Creirwy" title="Creirwy">Creirwy</a>. Her husband was <a href="/wiki/Tegid_Foel" title="Tegid Foel">Tegid Foel</a> and they lived near <a href="/wiki/Bala_Lake" title="Bala Lake">Bala Lake</a> (<span title="Welsh-language text"><i lang="cy">Llyn Tegid</i></span>) in north <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>. Medieval Welsh poetry refers to her as possessing the cauldron of poetic inspiration (<a href="/wiki/Awen" title="Awen">Awen</a>) and the Tale of Taliesin recounts her swallowing her servant Gwion Bach who is then reborn through her as the poet <a href="/wiki/Taliesin" title="Taliesin">Taliesin</a>. Ceridwen is regarded by many <a href="/wiki/Modern_paganism" title="Modern paganism">modern pagans</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Celtic_goddess" class="mw-redirect" title="Celtic goddess">Celtic goddess</a> of rebirth, transformation, and inspiration. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ceridwen&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marged Haycock catalogues various forms of the name in the early texts,<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> and in less detail in her edition of the Taliesin poems.<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> These mainly occur in manuscripts which have been dated to the 13th century, though they may, of course, be using earlier forms or 13th century adaptations of earlier forms. <i>The Black Book of Carmarthen</i> gives ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">Kyrridven</i></span>’. <i>Peniarth 3</i> gives ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">Kyrrytuen</i></span>’, <i>The Book of Taliesin</i> variously gives ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">Cerituen</i></span>’, ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">Kerrituen</i></span>’ and ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">Kerritwen</i></span>’, while <i>The Red Book of Hergest</i> gives ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">Kerituen</i></span>’. So ‘-fen’ is the most common termination (a mutated form of archaic ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">ben</i></span>’ : ‘woman’). The variant forms ‘fen’, ‘uen’ and ‘ven’ are all due to variant scribal practices in the spelling of the sound in the modern letter ‘v’, as is the letter ‘w’, which was also sometimes used for this sound,<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> causing the final syllable to be confused with ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">wen</i></span>’ as a mutated form of Gwen (fair, blessed) a common ending to Welsh names. So ‘<span title="Welsh-language text"><i lang="cy">Ceridwen</i></span>’ as a modern Welsh form of the name. Similarly, the difference between the ‘C’ and the ‘K’ initial consonant is clearly simply a matter of a different spelling convention to represent the hard ‘c’ sound. But the following vowel, ‘y’ or ‘e’ could well represent a shift in actual pronunciation of the vowel sound.<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> Sir Ifor Williams <sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> asserted that ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">Cyrridfen</i></span>’ is the most likely original form from ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">cwrr</i></span>’ (bent, angled), so ‘woman with a crooked back’, fitting the stereotype of a witch. Marged Haycock accepts ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">ben</i></span>’ but questions the first syllable as ‘cyr’, suggesting other possible alternatives which could relate to ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">crynu</i></span>’ (shake or shiver), or ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">craid</i></span>’ (passionate, fierce, powerful), but also notes her daughter Creirwy, with the first syllable a form of ‘<span title="Middle Welsh-language text"><i lang="wlm">credu</i></span>’ (belief) and so, by analogy, her mother’s name as Credidfen would mean ‘woman to be believed in’, making the mother’s and daughter’s name stems a pair. </p><p>The earliest poems emphasise her keeping of the cauldron of <a href="/wiki/Awen" title="Awen">awen</a> and so a source of poetic inspiration. Cuhelyn Fardd (1100-1130) spoke of being inspired by her muse, while Cynddelw Prydydd Mawr (1155-1200) acknowledged her as the source of his art and Prydydd y Moch at the beginning of the 13th century specifically mentions the cauldron of Kyridfen as the source of the gift of <a href="/wiki/Awen" title="Awen">awen</a>. These and other references by identified bards are in addition to the many references by unidentified bards in <i>The <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Taliesin" title="Book of Taliesin">Book of Taliesin</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legend">Legend</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ceridwen&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Legend"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This story is first attested in a sixteenth-century manuscript written by <a href="/wiki/Elis_Gruffydd" title="Elis Gruffydd">Elis Gruffydd</a> who claimed that it was widely known in Wales at that time in both written versions and in oral lore<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The story tells that Ceridwen's son, <a href="/wiki/Morfran" title="Morfran">Morfran</a> (also called <a href="/wiki/Afagddu" class="mw-redirect" title="Afagddu">Afagddu</a>), was hideously ugly – particularly compared with his beautiful sister <a href="/wiki/Creirwy" title="Creirwy">Creirwy</a> – so Ceridwen sought to make him wise in compensation. She made a <a href="/wiki/Potion" title="Potion">potion</a> in her magical cauldron to grant the gift of wisdom and poetic inspiration, also called <a href="/wiki/Awen" title="Awen">Awen</a>. </p><p>The mixture had to be boiled for a year and a day. She set Morda, a blind man, to tend the fire beneath the cauldron, while <a href="/wiki/Taliesin" title="Taliesin">Gwion Bach</a>, a young boy, stirred the concoction. The first three drops of liquid from this potion gave wisdom; the rest was a fatal poison. Three hot drops spilled onto Gwion's thumb as he stirred, burning him. He instinctively put his thumb in his mouth, and gained the wisdom and knowledge Ceridwen had intended for her son. Realising that Ceridwen would be angry, Gwion fled. Ceridwen chased him. Using the powers of the potion he turned himself into a hare. She became a greyhound. He became a fish and jumped into a river. She transformed into an otter. He turned into a bird; she became a hawk. Finally, he turned into a single grain of corn. She then became a hen and, being a <a href="/wiki/Goddess" title="Goddess">goddess</a> (or enchantress, depending on the version of the tale), she found and ate him without trouble. But because of the potion he was not destroyed. When Ceridwen became pregnant, she knew it was Gwion and resolved to kill the child when he was born. However, when he was born, he was so beautiful that she could not do it. She threw him in the ocean instead, sewing him inside a leather-skin bag (or set him in a <a href="/wiki/Coracle" title="Coracle">coracle</a>, depending on the story). The child did not die, but was rescued on a Welsh shore – near <a href="/wiki/Aberdyfi" title="Aberdyfi">Aberdyfi</a> according to most versions of the tale – by a prince named <a href="/wiki/Elffin_ap_Gwyddno" title="Elffin ap Gwyddno">Elffin ap Gwyddno</a>; the reborn infant grew to become the legendary bard <a href="/wiki/Taliesin" title="Taliesin">Taliesin</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_interpretations">Later interpretations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ceridwen&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later interpretations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It has been suggested that Ceridwen first appeared as a simple sorceress character in the <i>Tale of Taliesin</i>. Its earliest surviving text dates from the mid-16th century, but it appears from its language to be a 9th-century composition, according to Hutton. References to Ceridwen and her cauldron found in the work of the 12th century <span title="Welsh-language text"><i lang="cy">Gogynfeirdd</i></span> or Poets of the Princes (such as <a href="/wiki/Cynddelw_Brydydd_Mawr" title="Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr">Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr</a>) he thus considers later, derivative works. In them, according to Hutton, Ceridwen is transformed from a sorceress into a goddess of poetry. Citing this and a couple of other examples, Hutton proposes that the <span title="Welsh-language text"><i lang="cy">Gogynfeirdd</i></span> substantially created a new mythology not reflective of earlier paganism.<sup id="cite_ref-ron_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ron-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nonetheless, references to Ceridwen's cauldron (<i>pair Ceridwen</i>) are also to be found in some of the early mythological poems attributed to the legendary Taliesin in the <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Taliesin" title="Book of Taliesin">Book of Taliesin</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Victorian poet <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Love_Peacock" title="Thomas Love Peacock">Thomas Love Peacock</a> also wrote a poem entitled the <i>Cauldron of Ceridwen</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later writers identified her as having originally been a pagan goddess, speculating on her role in a supposed Celtic pantheon. <a href="/wiki/John_Rhys" class="mw-redirect" title="John Rhys">John Rhys</a> in 1878 referred to the Solar Myth theory of <a href="/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller" title="Max Müller">Max Müller</a> according to which "Gwenhwyfar and Ceridwen are dawn goddesses."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Charles Isaac Elton in 1882 referred to her as a "white fairy".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Graves" title="Robert Graves">Robert Graves</a> later fitted her into his concept of the <a href="/wiki/Triple_Goddess_(Neopaganism)" title="Triple Goddess (Neopaganism)">Threefold Goddess</a>, in which she was interpreted as a form of the destructive side of the goddess.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Wicca" title="Wicca">Wicca</a>, Ceridwen is a goddess of change and rebirth and transformation and her cauldron symbolizes knowledge and inspiration.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <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=Ceridwen&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Finn_MacCool" class="mw-redirect" title="Finn MacCool">Finn MacCool</a> and the legend of the <a href="/wiki/Salmon_of_Knowledge" title="Salmon of Knowledge">Salmon of Knowledge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%A1fnism%C3%A1l" title="Fáfnismál">Fáfnismál</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cottingham,_East_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire">Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire</a> which was possibly named after Ceridwen.</li></ul> <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=Ceridwen&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><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 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(Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 2003)</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"> <i>Legendary Poems From The Book of Taliesin</i>, (CMCS, 2007),</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">D. Simon Evans <i>A Grammar of Middle Welsh</i>, (Dublin, 1964)</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"> Marged Haycock ‘Cadair Ceridwen’, <i>Cyfoeth y Testun</i> 148-> (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 2003)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ifor Williams <i>Chwedl Taliesin</i> (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1957)</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">Marged Haycock, <i>Legendary Poems from The Book of Taliesin</i> (CMCS, 2007)</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"> Patrick K. Ford <i>Ystoria Taliesin</i> (University of Wales Press, 1992) is the standard Welsh text, with a reliable translation by the same author in his <i>The Mabinogi and other Medieval Welsh Tales</i> (University of California Press, 1977)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ron-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ron_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ronald Hutton, <i>The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy</i>, Blackwell Publishing, 1993, p. 323</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">J. Gwenogvryn Evans (ed.), <i>The Book of Taliesin</i> (Llanbedrog, 1910), 33.10; 27.13–14; 33.10.</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">Thomas Love Peacock, <i>The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms</i>, R. Bentley and Son, 1875, p. 113.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John Rhys, <i>Lectures on Welsh Philology</i>, Trübner, 1879, p. 305</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">Charles Isaac Elton, <i>Origins of English History</i>, B. 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title="Four Branches of the Mabinogi">Four Branches of the <i>Mabinogi</i></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Pwyll_Pendefig_Dyfed" title="Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed">Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Branwen_ferch_Ll%C5%B7r" title="Branwen ferch Llŷr">Branwen ferch Llŷr</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Manawydan_fab_Ll%C5%B7r" title="Manawydan fab Llŷr">Manawydan fab Llŷr</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Math_fab_Mathonwy_(branch)" title="Math fab Mathonwy (branch)">Math fab Mathonwy</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#c1e6c1;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Matter_of_Britain" title="Matter of Britain">Arthurian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Culhwch_and_Olwen" title="Culhwch and 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Taliesin" title="Taliesin">Taliesin</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cad_Goddeu" title="Cad Goddeu">Cad Goddeu</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Welsh_Triads" title="Welsh Triads">Welsh Triads</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Welsh_mythology#The_Dream_of_Macsen_Wledig" title="Welsh mythology">The Dream of Macsen Wledig</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Englynion_y_Beddau" title="Englynion y Beddau">Englynion y Beddau</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giants_(Welsh_folklore)" title="Giants (Welsh folklore)">Giant tales</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lludd_and_Llefelys" title="Lludd and Llefelys">Lludd and Llefelys</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#c1e6c1;;width:1%">Characters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afaon_fab_Taliesin" title="Afaon fab Taliesin">Afaon fab Taliesin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amaethon" title="Amaethon">Amaethon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arawn" title="Arawn">Arawn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arianrhod" title="Arianrhod">Arianrhod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">Arthur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afallach" title="Afallach">Afallach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beli_Mawr" title="Beli Mawr">Beli Mawr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bleiddwn" title="Bleiddwn">Bleiddwn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blodeuwedd" title="Blodeuwedd">Blodeuwedd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedivere" title="Bedivere">Bedwyr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Br%C3%A2n_the_Blessed" title="Brân the Blessed">Bendigeidfran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branwen" title="Branwen">Branwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Kay" title="Sir Kay">Cai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caradog_ap_Bran" title="Caradog ap Bran">Caradog ap Bran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassivellaunus" title="Cassivellaunus">Caswallawn</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ceridwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cigfa" title="Cigfa">Cigfa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creiddylad" title="Creiddylad">Creiddylad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culhwch" title="Culhwch">Culhwch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyhyraeth" title="Cyhyraeth">Cyhyraeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyledr_Wyllt" title="Cyledr Wyllt">Cyledr Wyllt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cymidei_Cymeinfoll" title="Cymidei Cymeinfoll">Cymidei Cymeinfoll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cynon_ap_Clydno" title="Cynon ap Clydno">Cynon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%B4n" title="Dôn">Dôn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drudwas_ap_Tryffin" title="Drudwas ap Tryffin">Drudwas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dylan_ail_Don" title="Dylan ail Don">Dylan ail Don</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dywel_fab_Erbin" title="Dywel fab Erbin">Dywel fab Erbin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edern_ap_Nudd" title="Edern ap Nudd">Edern ap Nudd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Efnysien" title="Efnysien">Efnysien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Elen" title="Saint Elen">Elen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elffin_ap_Gwyddno" title="Elffin ap Gwyddno">Elffin ap Gwyddno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliwlod" title="Eliwlod">Eliwlod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eufydd_fab_D%C3%B4n" title="Eufydd fab Dôn">Eufydd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euroswydd" title="Euroswydd">Euroswydd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geraint" title="Geraint">Geraint</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilfaethwy" title="Gilfaethwy">Gilfaethwy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glewlwyd_Gafaelfawr" title="Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr">Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goewin" title="Goewin">Goewin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gofannon" title="Gofannon">Gofannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goreu_fab_Custennin" title="Goreu fab Custennin">Goreu fab Custennin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gronw_Pebr" title="Gronw Pebr">Gronw Pebr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwawl" title="Gwawl">Gwawl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwern" title="Gwern">Gwern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwrhyr_Gwalstawd_Ieithoedd" title="Gwrhyr Gwalstawd Ieithoedd">Gwrhyr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwyddno_Garanhir" title="Gwyddno Garanhir">Gwyddno Garanhir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwydion" title="Gwydion">Gwydion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwyn_ap_Nudd" title="Gwyn ap Nudd">Gwyn ap Nudd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwythyr_ap_Greidawl" title="Gwythyr ap Greidawl">Gwythyr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gawain" 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 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