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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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After that Lludd had shewn his brother the cause of his errand, Llevelys said that he himself knew the cause of the coming to those lands. 

From The Mabinogion Vol. 3 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards

And this Tale is called the Story of Lludd and Llevelys. 

From The Mabinogion Vol. 3 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards

And p. 115nothing was ever more wonderful to Lludd, than that the hamper should hold so much.

From The Mabinogion Vol. 3 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards

The mythic Bran is confused with Brennus, leader of the Gauls against Rome in 390 B.C., and Belinus may be the god Belenos, as well as Beli, father of Lludd and Caswallawn.

From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch

These Lludd captures and imprisons at Dinas Emreis, where they afterwards cause trouble to Vortigern at the building of his castle.

From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch

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