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Llaw Gyffes that he should never have a wife of 

 the race that now inhabits the earth. So Llew 

 Llaw Gyffes's uncle Math, the son of Mathonwy, 

 took counsel with Gwydion and made a damsel 

 from the blossoms of the oak, the blossoms of the 

 broom, and the blossoms of the meadowsweet, the 

 fairest and most graceful maiden that man ever 

 saw. And they baptized her and gave her the 

 name of Blodeuwedd or Flower-face. Soon she 

 was married to Llew Llaw Gyffes. 



Then while her husband was away came Gronw 

 Pebyr and made love to Blodeuwedd, and when 

 her husband came home she, at Gronw Pebyr's 

 instigation, wheedled from him what was to be 

 his manner of death. 



The spear that must slay him would have to be 

 a whole year in the making, and nothing be done 

 towards it except during the sacrifice on Sundays. 

 ' And then,' said Llew Llaw Gyffes, ' I cannot be 

 slain within a house or without. And I cannot 

 be slain on horseback nor on foot.' Finally, she 

 learnt that he would have to be standing with one 

 foot on the edge of a roofed bath and the other 

 on the back of a goat standing outside. 



In that position Blodeuwedd placed her husband 

 at the end of the year, and Gronw Pebyr flung 

 the specially prepared spear at him, whereupon 

 Blodeuwedd's husband flew up in the form of an 

 eagle and gave a fearful scream. ' And thence- 

 forth,' says the story in that place, ' he was no 

 more seen.' 



