Category Archives: Welsh

If Found, Send to Sorhed (the Postage Is Prepaid)

Posted on April 12, 2026 by Nathan

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, by Garth Nix – Art student Susan Arkshaw has just turned eighteen and come to London seeking information on her absent father. She tries to confront her mother’s old boyfriend, who’s actually a crime boss. … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Celtic, Discworld, Families, Humor, infocom, J.R.R. Tolkien, Language, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Terry Pratchett, ursula vernon, Video Games, Welsh, zork | Tagged ankh-morpork, anuket city, aragorn, bored of the rings, clocktaur war, clockwork boys, demons, douglas kenney, dragons, dwarves, elves, ents, fairies, gandalf, garth nix, gimli, gnoles, henry beard, hobbits, jessica khoury, jolly green giant, learned edmund, lord of the rings, misogyny, national lampoon, old man of coniston, pigs, puns, robots, saruman, sheep, t. kingfisher, the left-handed booksellers of london, the moorwitch, the wonder engine, thermofax, wishbringer, witches, wizards | 2 Comments

Lludd Conquers All

Posted on March 29, 2026 by Nathan

When reading Philip Freeman’s Celtic Mythology, I was reminded of a rather bizarre story that I think was in the version of the Mabinogi that I read, although it’s not traditionally considered part of that work. It’s about Lludd Llaw … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, British, Celtic, England, Etymology, History, Language, Magic, Mythology, Names, Roman, Welsh | Tagged afallach, ambrosius aurelianus, arianrhod, beli mawr, bible, bran the blessed, bres, brutus of britain, cassivellaunus, celtic mythology, coranians, demons, dragons, emrys, fir bolg, geoffrey of monmouth, gospel of luke, gospels, gwyn ap nudd, heli, historia regum britanniae, julius caesar, king arthur, king vortigern, llevelys, lludd, london, mabinogion, mars, merlin, nennius, nodens, nuada, philip freeman, tuatha de danann | Leave a comment

A Sworded Love Affair

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Nathan

Vellum: The Book of All Hours, by Hal Duncan – This is a complicated book by design, but still interesting to read, even if it’s not always clear what’s going on. It jumps around a lot between characters, times, places, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Celtic, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, incryptid, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Urban Legends, ursula vernon, Welsh | Tagged aeslin mice, angels, bakeneko, chupacabra, clurichauns, cryptozoology, elric of melnibone, elves, fairies, ghosts, gnoles, goblins, gorgons, greenteeth, guy fawkes, gwyn ap nudd, h.p. lovecraft, hal duncan, iacchus, installment immortality, jenny greenteeth, mabinogion, mary dunlavy, metatron, mice, michael moorcock, molly o'neill, mourner's waltz, paladin's grace, pigs, reynard the fox, rolling stones, spring-heeled jack, stormbringer, swordheart, swords, t. kingfisher, the book of all hours, twrch trwyth, vellum, verity price, weapons | Leave a comment

Working for a Wizard

Posted on April 17, 2025 by Nathan

King’s Quest III: To Heir Is Human – I just finished this one the other day. It’s quite creative, and adds some interesting new ideas to the series, but, as I’ve mentioned before, it’s also very stressful. This one mostly … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Celtic, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Sierra, Video Games, Welsh | Tagged abominable snowman, bears, cats, daventry, dragons, goldilocks and the three bears, gwydion, king graham, king's quest, king's quest collection, king's quest iii, llewdor, mabinogion, manannan mac lir, medusa, oracle, prince alexander, princess rosella, sharks, to heir is human, wizards | 1 Comment

Changing in the Telling

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Nathan

The Unkindest Tide, by Seanan McGuire – This book deals with the Roane, the aquatic children of the Luidaeg who had been mostly killed off centuries earlier, their skins then being used to create Selkies. The sea-witch vows to revive … Continue reading →

Posted in Anglicanism, Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Catholicism, Christianity, Fairy Tales, German, History, Islam, Magic, marissa meyer, Middle Ages, Mythology, Norse, Nursery Rhymes, october daye, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Urban Legends, Welsh | Tagged apocrypals, archbishop whateley, cait sith, cats, ceil baring-gould, curious myths of the middle ages, cursed, dogs, erlking, fairies, garden of eden, gellert, gilded, jesus, luidaeg, merrows, napoleon bonaparte, paradise, perchta, pope joan, prester john, prince llewellyn, roane, rumplestiltskin, sabine baring-gould, selkies, seven sleepers of ephesus, sherlock holmes, the annotated mother goose, the unkindest tide, titania, wandering jew, william stuart baring-gould, william tell | 1 Comment

Love That Leviathan

Posted on November 19, 2022 by Nathan

I’d been meaning to discuss Leviathan a little more, which I think was inspired by the name being used for the base of the rebel organization Astrea in Cosmic Star Heroine. Considering all the other references to classic games, I had thought … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celtic, Christianity, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Japanese, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Pokémon, Religion, Semitic, Video Games, Welsh | Tagged astrea, atlantis: the lost empire, behemoth, bible, cecil harvey, cenobites, cosmic star heroine, crabs, davy jones, dragon quest ix: sentinels of the starry skies, dragons, dragoons, dylan ail don, dylan jones, eidolons, emblem of roto, espers, euripides, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy ix, final fantasy xii, groudon, helen of troy, hell, hellraiser, hellraiser ii, job, jona jones, jonah, kyogre, let's talk about myths baby, leviathan, lleviathan, mabinogion, manga, moon, mysidia, porth llaffan, psalms, ricard highwind, ringworms, robots, rydia of mist, ryujin, sea serpents, sharks, sin, summoned monsters, terry gilliam, the adventures of baron munchausen, ultima, whales, wobbegong sharks | 5 Comments

Tammy and Tommy in Fairyland

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Nathan

Picture by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law I’ve come across multiple mentions of the Ballad of Tam Lin, so I thought that might be something worth addressing in a post. The Scottish song is thought to have existed as far back as … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, Celtic, Diana Wynne Jones, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Halloween, History, Holidays, Magic, Music, Mythology, october daye, Poetry, Relationships, Scottish, seanan mcguire, United Kingdom, Welsh | Tagged fairies, fairyland, fire and hemlock, heaven, hell, night and silence, oberon, prophecy, robert burns, tam lin, thomas the rhymer, walter scott | 1 Comment

Taliesin’s Tale

Posted on September 5, 2022 by Nathan

I don’t think I’ve said that much about the legendary bard Taliesin, although I’ve come across him when researching other British mythology. I tend to subconsciously associate him with Tam Lin and Thomas the Rhymer, I guess because they’re also … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, British, Celtic, Etymology, Finnish, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Music, Mythology, Names, Poetry, Uncategorized, Welsh | Tagged amaetheon fab don, annwn, arawn, bards, bible, bran the blessed, cad goddeu, cerridwen, chronicles of prydain, crewarwy, deer, dogs, elffin ap gwyddno, fflewddur fflam, fionn mac cumhaill, giants, gwion bach ap gwreang, gwydion fab don, king arthur, king urien, lloyd alexander, merlin, morfran, myrddin wyllt, ogham, orpheus, potions, salmon of knowledge, taliesin, trees, vainamoinen, witches | 2 Comments

It’s a Celtic Thing

Posted on August 27, 2022 by Nathan

I recently finished reading the Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh mythological prose, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest in the nineteenth century. I understand there have been better English translations since then, but this is what I could easily find online, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Board Games, British, Celtic, Characters, Christianity, Games, History, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Religion, Roman Empire, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Welsh | Tagged affalach, arianrhod, avalon, bible, blodeuwedd, cassivellaunus, cayke the cookie cook, chronicles of prydain, delilah, dylan ail don, eagles, emperor magnus maximus, fidchell, fisher king, flowers, gilfathwy, goewin, grampa in oz, gronw pebr, gwydion fab don, holy grail, judges, julius caesar, king arthur, lady charlotte guest, lleu llaw gyffes, lloyd alexander, mabinogion, magic dishpan, math ap mathonwy, owls, pair dadeni, rape, sir perceval, the black cauldron, the lost princess of oz, urtha | 8 Comments

So I Says to Mabon, I Says

Posted on September 25, 2021 by Nathan

This past Wednesday was the Autumnal Equinox, so I guess you should keep an eye out for pumpkin Piranha Plants and Koopas in Mario masks. I believe I was first aware of the season change in Super Mario World from … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, British, Celtic, Greek Mythology, Halloween, Holidays, Mario, Mystery Cults, Mythology, Religion, Video Games, Welsh | Tagged aidan kelly, apollo, autumn, avalon, birds, blackbirds, bullet bills, culhwch, custennen, deer, demeter, dogs, eagles, eleusinian mysteries, fish, giants, goreu, gwyn ap nudd, king arthur, king urien, koopa troopas, mabon, mabon ap modron, maponos, modron, morgan le fay, olwen, owls, paganism, persephone, pidgits, pigs, piranha plants, salmon, seasons, sir kay, sir owain, super mario world, taliesin, twrch trwyth, ysbaddaden | 3 Comments

Category Archives: Welsh

If Found, Send to Sorhed (the Postage Is Prepaid)

Lludd Conquers All

A Sworded Love Affair

Working for a Wizard

Changing in the Telling

Love That Leviathan

Tammy and Tommy in Fairyland

Taliesin’s Tale

So I Says to Mabon, I Says

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