Friday, 20 March 2020

Own work: 'Llech Gronw'

     My latest pen and ink drawing, based on the slaying of Gronw Pibyr in 'Math fab Mathonwy' the fourth of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, the 'Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi'. At the end of the tale the usurping Gronw is confronted by the hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes hot for revenge. Although accepting Lleu's challenge Gronw, in an act both duplicitous and cowardly, hides behind a standing stone, but undeterred Lleu throws his spear at stone and coward piercing both.

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