• Blodeuwedd (Welsh pronunciation: [blɔˈdeiwɛð]; Welsh "Flower-Faced", a composite name from blodau "flowers" + gwedd "face"), is married to Lleu Llaw Gyffes...
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  • and named her Blodeuwedd. Blodeuwedd has an affair with Gronw Pebr, the lord of Penllyn, and the two conspire to murder Lleu. Blodeuwedd tricks Lleu into...
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    left Drama Centre in her final term to star in Saunders Lewis's play Blodeuwedd with Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru. She has appeared in Violence and Son at...
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  • to life, giving her the name Blodeuwedd "Flower-Faced". One day, when Lleu was away from home visiting Math, Blodeuwedd saw a nobleman, named Gronw Pebr...
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  • modern Wales, it is an adaptation of the story of the mythical Welsh woman Blodeuwedd, an "expression of the myth" in the author's words. Garner won the annual...
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    and Dylan ail Don, of the tyngedau of Arianrhod, and of the creation of Blodeuwedd, a woman made of flowers. The chief characters of the tale are Math, king...
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    and named her Blodeuwedd. Blodeuwedd has an affair with Gronw Pebr, the lord of Penllyn, and the two conspire to murder Lleu. Blodeuwedd tricks Lleu into...
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  • the fourth branch of the Mabinogi as the lord of Penllyn, the lover of Blodeuwedd and the murderer of Lleu Llaw Gyffes. He is also mentioned in the Welsh...
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    they are foils in that Gronw persues Lleu's wife, the flower-maiden Blodeuwedd). In Cad Goddeu, Gwron is paired with Madrud/Modron, the mother of the...
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    Cornwall) and Brittany. They spoke the Brythonic languages. Arianrhod Blodeuwedd Branwen Ceridwen Creiddylad Creirwy Dôn Gwenhwyfar Modron - possible derivation...
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  • breaks into a first-person account of the birth of the flower-maiden Blodeuwedd, and then the history of another one, a great warrior, once a herdsman...
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  • naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made." He was safe until his wife, Blodeuwedd, learning of these foretold conditions, convinced him to show her how...
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  • touring production of Woman of Flowers, a reworking of the Welsh myth of Blodeuwedd by playwright Kaite O'Reilly. She has also appeared in episodes of several...
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  • Mathonwy Dôn Math fab Mathonwy Goewin Gwydion Gilfaethwy Arianrhod Gofannon Amaethon Dylan ail Don Lleu Llaw Gyffes Blodeuwedd...
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    1970s Carving at entrance to Schloß, Tübingen, Germany Apple Tree Man Blodeuwedd Burryman Clun Green Man Festival Ent Flower Pot Men Gargoyle Green Giant...
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    this herb, called broom ale, as a remedy for dropsy. In Welsh mythology, Blodeuwedd is the name of a woman made from the flowers of broom, meadowsweet (Filipendula...
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    created a woman out of oak blossom, broom, and meadowsweet and named her Blodeuwedd ("flower face"). In the 16th century, when it was customary to strew floors...
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    mythological characters Amaethon Arawn Arianrhod King Arthur Afallach Beli Mawr Blodeuwedd Brân the Blessed Branwen Caswallawn Ceridwen Cigfa Creiddylad Culhwch...
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    ransom. Math fab Mathonwy and Gwydion transform flowers into a woman named Blodeuwedd, and when she betrays her husband Lleu Llaw Gyffes, who is transformed...
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    1967; first US edition Henry Z. Walck, 1968) alludes to the mythical Blodeuwedd featured in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi. In Garner's tale three...
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    mythological characters Amaethon Arawn Arianrhod King Arthur Afallach Beli Mawr Blodeuwedd Brân the Blessed Branwen Caswallawn Ceridwen Cigfa Creiddylad Culhwch...
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    mythological characters Amaethon Arawn Arianrhod King Arthur Afallach Beli Mawr Blodeuwedd Brân the Blessed Branwen Caswallawn Ceridwen Cigfa Creiddylad Culhwch...
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  • creating a woman out of oak blossom, broom, and meadowsweet; she is named Blodeuwedd ("flower face"). With her curses, Arianrhod denied Lleu the three aspects...
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    and The Owl Service (1967). The latter is an adaptation of the myth of Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogion, set in modern Wales – it won Garner the annual Carnegie...
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  • Math make him a beautiful wife from flowers, and name her Blodeuwedd ("Flowers"). Blodeuwedd falls in love with a passing hunter called Goronwy, and they...
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  • naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made." When his magically created wife, Blodeuwedd, wanted to learn how to kill him in order to be with her lover, she convinced...
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    mythological characters Amaethon Arawn Arianrhod King Arthur Afallach Beli Mawr Blodeuwedd Brân the Blessed Branwen Caswallawn Ceridwen Cigfa Creiddylad Culhwch...
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  • adds an artificially incubated pregnancy, and a synthetic woman. She, Blodeuwedd, creates a treacherous love triangle, murder in a peculiar manner. Gwydion...
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    mythological characters Amaethon Arawn Arianrhod King Arthur Afallach Beli Mawr Blodeuwedd Brân the Blessed Branwen Caswallawn Ceridwen Cigfa Creiddylad Culhwch...
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    mythological characters Amaethon Arawn Arianrhod King Arthur Afallach Beli Mawr Blodeuwedd Brân the Blessed Branwen Caswallawn Ceridwen Cigfa Creiddylad Culhwch...
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