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amelia_petkova ([personal profile] amelia_petkova) wrote2006-10-31 05:43 pm
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The Grey King

"On the day of the dead, when the year too dies, / Must the youngest open the oldest hills"

Why can't my Halloween every be as interesting as Will and Bran's?

A question for The Dark is Rising fans: Does anyone know if the brenin llwyd and the milgwn (apologies if I misspelled) are based on Welsh myth, or did Susan Cooper make them up out of thin air?

Happy Halloween/Samhain!

Just over six hours until NaNoWriMo begins in this time zone...good luck everyone.

[identity profile] eirendel.livejournal.com 2007-10-27 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I just googled both subjects. One site I found did equate the Brenin Llwyd with Arawn, and therefore the Grey King would need hounds to hunt with. But no specific references to the milgyn as something supernatural. Not in english, anyway, though I found several links to welsh pages that mentioned that word.

Some places I visited:

http://www.maryjones.us/jce/breninllwyd.html
http://www.pagannews.com/cgi-bin/gods3.pl?Arawn
http://theshatteredrealm.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html