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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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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

By Lady Charlotte Guest Beli the Great, the son of Manogan, had three sons, Lludd and Caswallawn and Nynyaw; and according to the story he had a fourth son called Llevelys.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 4 by William Patten

Others, especially the four Mabinogion properly so called and the Tale of Lludd and Llevelys, are far older; they are older than Christianity, and older than Arthur.

From The Mabinogion Vol. 1 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards

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

The third is that of the disappearance of a year's supply of food by a magician, who lulls every one to sleep and who is captured by Lludd.

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

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