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Quotation from The Mabinogion by Anonymous (Middle Welsh)
“So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw.”
The Mabinogion, Math the Son of Mathonwy, trans. Lady Charlotte Guest
Math and Gwydion use charms to form Blodeuwedd as a wife for Llew, since Arianrod has sworn he will have no wife of any race now on earth.
Citation: "So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw." — Anonymous (Middle Welsh), The Mabinogion, Math the Son of Mathonwy, trans. Lady Charlotte Guest. (id the-mabinogion-q7)
Portrait: Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion, William Walker, Public domain.
