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Twrch Trwyth (Welsh pronunciation: [tuːɾχ tɾʊɨθ]; also Welsh: Trwyd), is a
fabulous wild boar from the
Legend of King Arthur, of
which a
richly elaborate...
- (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈkʊmtʊrχ]) is a
village in the
valley of the Afon
Twrch, a right-bank
tributary to the
Swansea Valley, Wales, some 15
miles north...
- The Afon
Twrch is a
river which rises in the
Black Mountain in
south Wales. It
forms the
boundary between Powys and
Carmarthenshire and,
downstream of...
- hagiography, and
sometimes actual history. The
fight against the
terrible boar
Twrch Trwyth certainly has
antecedents in
Celtic tradition,
namely Arthur's boar-hunt...
- Old
English for "valley (denu) of a
river called Turce", with
Turce or
Twrch being a lost
Celtic river name,
possibly meaning boar. The
Anglican Church...
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group after Gallic mythological figures.
Celtic mythology Triple deities Twrch Trwyth The
Latin alphabet did not
distinguish between U and V.
Green 1992...
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completes a
number of
impossible tasks (anoethau),
including hunting the
Twrch Trwyth and
recovering the
exalted prisoner Mabon ap Modron. Cai is a prominent...
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vicious boar,
Twrch Trwyth. As it is
impossible to hunt the boar
without Gwyn's aid, he is
called upon to join
Arthur and his
retinue against Twrch Trwyth....
- been made to link the name with proto-Celtic *torko- (Irish torc
Welsh twrch)
meaning a wild boar, as well as with
imaginary Irish words supposedly meaning...
- name. The
Group comprises a
thick unit of co****
sandstone known as the
Twrch Sandstone (formerly the ‘Basal Grit’)
which is
overlain by the Bishopston...
