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The character Clud is mentioned as the father of Gwawl in the First Branch of the Mabinogi. The legends known as “The Four Branches of the Mabinogi” originated in Ireland and, though heavily redacted and translated to Middle Welsh, they still retain many names which are two or more Irish words written phonetically by a listening scribe and fused together as a single Middle Welsh word– e.g. Arawn, Annwfyn, Mabinogi, Rhiannon, etc. Little is known of Clud other that he was father of a very rich, big, brown-haired, silken-dressed, swaggering, impressive trickster called Gwawl to whom the beautiful maiden Rhiannon was to be forcibly married. The relationship of Clud to Gwawl was seemingly more than that of father to son. It also was the relationship of rags to riches in one generation. ‘Clud’ is the phonetic spelling of the Irish word ‘clúid’ meaning rags; (singular form: ‘clúd’). We can therefore suspect that Gwawl’s father was a poor man – or dressed poorly. ‘Gwawl’ is the phonetic

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