[421]. Both by Malory and Geoffrey of Monmouth.

[422]. Rhys: Arthurian Legend, p. 256.

[423]. See chap. XVIII—“The Wooing of Branwen and the Beheading of Brân”.

[424]. He is called Ogyrvran the Giant.

[425]. Rhys: Arthurian Legend, p. 326.

[426]. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures, pp. 268-269.

[427]. Rhys: Lectures on Welsh Philology, p. 306. But the derivation is only tentative, and an interesting alternative one is given, which equates him with the Persian Ahriman.

[428]. The enumeration of Arthur’s three Gwynhwyvars forms one of the Welsh triads.

[429]. Rhys: Arthurian Legend, p. 342.

[430]. See chap. XI—“The Gods in Exile”.