ANNWFN was the chthonic kingdom of the otherworldly sylvan hunter, Arawn. There it was that Arawn hunted stag with his albino hounds. It was a kingdom opposed to the realm of the summery Hafgan and lay on the other side of the crossing from it. It was a place of hunting and Saturnalian festivities and furnished with brimming cauldrons from which only brave men supped and which maidens attended. The interpretation of the name as representing a former *en-dubno- ‘inner world’ is based on the view expressed in Sioned Davies's recent translation of the Mabinogion.
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