• Cad Goddeu (Middle Welsh: Kat Godeu, English: The Battle of the Trees) is a medieval Welsh poem preserved in the 14th-century manuscript known as the Book...
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    Fourth Branch of The Mabinogion, along with the Taliesin poems (especially Cad Goddeu), contain hints of the cyclicality of cosmogonic progressions. With this...
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    leading to the Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees), which Arawn lost to Amaethon and his brother, Gwydion. The standard text of 'Cad Goddeu' in the Book of...
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    'fairy tree' often refers to the elder tree. The medieval Welsh poem Cad Goddeu (The Battle of the Trees) is believed to contain Celtic tree lore, possibly...
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  • 2024. "Battle of the Trees (Cad Goddeu)". Archived from the original on 2 March 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2011. Cad Goddeu Higley, note to Preiddeu Annwn...
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  • Gyffes. He is also mentioned in the Welsh Triads and in the medieval poem Cad Goddeu. Lleu Llaw Gyffes has been placed under a tynged that he would never gain...
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  • "labourer" or "ploughman", and he is cited as being responsible for the Cad Goddeu, or "Battle of Trees", between the lord of the otherworld, Arawn, and...
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  • a choir. The lyrics are based on a fragment of an archaic Welsh poem Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees), and are sung in Sanskrit. The piece debuts during...
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  • battle can be identified with the Cad Goddeu, the "Battle of the Trees", best known from the tenth-century poem Cad Goddeu. Arthur is mentioned towards the...
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  • Ronw (Gronw's Stone). Robert Graves and others consider lines 142–153 of Cad Goddeu to be a "Song of Blodeuwedd". Alan Garner's novel, The Owl Service (1967)...
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