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Quotation from The Mabinogion by Anonymous (Middle Welsh)

“the head will be to you as pleasant company as it ever was when on my body.”

Anonymous (Middle Welsh) (spoken by Bendigeid Vran)

The Mabinogion, Branwen the Daughter of Llyr, trans. Lady Charlotte Guest

Portrait of Anonymous (Middle Welsh)

Wounded by a poisoned dart, Bran orders his men to cut off his head and foretells the seven years' feast at Harlech and the eighty years at Gwales.

Citation: "the head will be to you as pleasant company as it ever was when on my body." — Anonymous (Middle Welsh), The Mabinogion, Branwen the Daughter of Llyr, trans. Lady Charlotte Guest. (id the-mabinogion-q4)

Portrait: Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion, William Walker, Public domain.

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