This mythological figure was supposed to marry Gwawl, but using a bag which could never be filled with food was able to trick Gwawl into giving her up to her beloved, Pwyll, king of Arberth.
This mythological figure was supposed to marry Gwawl, but using a bag which could never be filled with food was able to trick Gwawl into giving her up to her beloved, Pwyll, king of Arberth. The main myth tells of her punishment to carry visitors to Arberth to the castle on her back after her young son wandered off to the farm of Teirnon Twrvliant, prompting the six women charged with his supervision to smear her face and hands with animal's blood and accuse her of his murder. FTP, who is this woman of Celtic myth perhaps best-known as the subject of a Fleetwood Mac song?
This mythological figure was supposed to marry Gwawl, but using a bag which could never be filled with food was able to trick Gwawl into giving her up to her beloved, Pwyll, king of Arberth.
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