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Compendium

here are

the Names of the Heroes

of the

Island of the Mighty:

4. Owain of the Ravens.

Owain of the Golden Torc,

Owain son of Uriens,

Owain of the Ravens,

Prince of Rheged.

the Three Flights of Ravens:

the three hundred swords of Kynvarch,

the three hundred shields of Cynwydd,

the three hundred spears of Coel.

On whatever expedition they might go in unison,

they would never fail.

Owain acclaimed Prince at the Mote of Mark,

the Royal Centre of Rheged.

One of the Three Fair Princes

of the Island of the Mighty.

Owain, Knight of Battles,

who would not flee for fear of

Arrow, Sword or Spear.

his Ravens fell, dark-visaged,

a Murder of Crows.

Owain, one of the Three Well Endowed Men

of the Island of Britain,

one of the Three Fair Womb-Burdens,

with his sister and twin, Morfudd,

beloved of Cynon, Great Hound.

Owain, married to Penarwen,

one of the Three Faithless Wives of this Island.

With his Red Speared Bard, Tristvard,

to sing Praising Songs in his Great Hall

and Slaughter Songs before battle.

And his great steed, Cloven Hoof,

to tread all enemies to dust.

Owain, son of Urien,

begotten on the Washer at the Ford

by Urien, then Prince.

At a Ford over the river Alun

known as the Ford of the Barking.

All the local dogs had gathered there to bark

at sone uncanny presence,

but none of the local people dared

to go and find the cause of the trouble.

one day Urien of Rheged passed by

and the Prince bravely went to investigate.

All he found was a lone woman washing.

The dogs stopped barking,

and struck by her beauty, he made love to her.

She did not protest.

She told him she was the daughter of

the King of Annfwyn, the Otherworld.

And that it was her destiny to wash

at the Ford until she had a son by a Christian.

She asked him to return after a year

when she would give him his son.

So he returned at the appointed time

and was presented with a son, Owain

and his twin, a daughter, Morfudd.

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