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Gwennan

He said that the three women who escaped from the submerged city were sisters, and that he had learned in his infancy to call them Gwennan bi Don, Elan bi D6n, and Maelan bi D6n

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He said that the three women who escaped from the submerged city were sisters, and that he had learned in his infancy to call them Gwennan bi Don, Elan bi D6n, and Maelan bi D6n (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

So it would appear that Gwennan, Elan, and Maelan, Arianrhod's sisters, were the just ones allowed to escape (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

and that it meant simply — Gwennan, baby or child of Don (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • attribution: Gwennan was the name of one of the women, and she was buried at the place now called Bed" Gwennan, or Gwennan's Grave (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

    "Gwennan was the name of one of the women, and she was buried at the place now called Bed" Gwennan, or Gwennan's Grave."

  • attestation: He said that the three women who escaped from the submerged city were sisters, and that he had learned in his infancy to call them Gwennan bi Don, Elan bi D6n, and Maelan bi D6n (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

    "He said that the three women who escaped from the submerged city were sisters, and that he had learned in his infancy to call them Gwennan bi Don, Elan bi D6n, and Maelan bi D6n."

  • attestation: So it would appear that Gwennan, Elan, and Maelan, Arianrhod's sisters, were the just ones allowed to escape (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

    "So it would appear that Gwennan, Elan, and Maelan, Arianrhod's sisters, were the just ones allowed to escape."

  • attestation: and that it meant simply — Gwennan, baby or child of Don (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

    "and that it meant simply — Gwennan, baby or child of Don."

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