The daughter of the giant YSBADDADEN, who is fated to die if she ever marries. The hero CULHWCH courts her and is given many difficult tasks to complete before he can marry her. With his cousin King ARTHUR's help he completes them, the giant dies, and he marries Olwen. The name means 'white footprint'; she is supposed to be so daint that white trefoils grow in her footsteps. Originally she may have been a solar goddes


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