Lludd and Llefelys

Illustration by Arthur Rackham, from The Allies Fairy Book from 1916. Lludd confronts the mighty magician.
The opening lines of Lludd and Llefelys (Bodleian Library's manuscript)

Lludd and Llefelys (Welsh: Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys, "The adventure or encounter of Lludd and Llefelys"[1]) is a Middle Welsh prose tale written down in the 12th or 13th century; it was included in the Mabinogion by Lady Charlotte Guest in the 19th century. It tells of the Welsh hero Lludd Llaw Eraint, best known as King Lud son of Heli in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, and his brother Llefelys.

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