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Arawn

[ ahr-oun ]

noun

, Welsh Mythology.
  1. the lord of Annwfn.


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My Nobles,” also said he who was in the semblance of Arawn, “take counsel and know who ought to be my subjects.

We are informed that these dogs belonged to Arawn, or the silver-tongued King of Annwn, of the lower or southern regions.

Arawn obtains the help of Pwyll by exchanging kingdoms with him for a year, and Pwyll defeats Hafgan.

They were the hounds of Arawn, a crowned king in the land of Annwn, the shadow-land of Hades.

Arawn's beautiful wife was evidently not in the secret, for she greeted Powell as her own husband.

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