Lludd

American  

[lyth] / lüð /

Welsh Nudd or Ludd

noun

Welsh Legend.

1. a king of Britain who rid his kingdom of three plagues and was famous for his generosity: sometimes regarded as a god.

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Example Sentences

Here may be cited the Mabinogi of Kilhwch and Olwen, where it speaks of the daughter of Lludd Llaw Ereint.

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In the ‘Mabinogion,’ the dragon which fights in Lludd’s dominion is mentioned as a plague, whose shriek sounded on every May eve over every hearth in Britain; and it ‘went through people’s hearts, and so scared them, that the men lost their hue and their strength, and the women their children, and the young men and maidens lost their senses.’

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Page 275—Llud amended to Lludd—"... the daughter of Lludd Llaw Ereint."

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Thus Lludd and Llevelys freed the island from its three plagues.

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Cymric god of Death, husband of Dōn; corresponds with the Irish Bilé, 348, 349; Lludd and Llevelys, sons of, 385 Bell, Mr. Arthur Reference to a drawing by, showing act of stone-worship, 66 Bel´tené.

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