Annwfn

Also Ann·wn

[ahn-oovn]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Welsh Mythology.

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He is created in the lowest stage of life, in Annwfn, the shadowy abyss at the base of Abred.

Another name applied to the Fairies is Plant Annwfn, or Plant Annwn.

A poem speaks of the magic cauldron of Pen Annwfn, i.e.

Where the Tylwyth Têg threw me . . . if I had not come in time to rescue thee from the clutches of Plant Annwfn.

Annwn, or Annwfn is defined in Canon Silvan Evans’s Dictionary as an abyss, Hades, etc.

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