You're an excellent narrator! I'm enjoying listening to all the stuff you've posted. It's weird how the fairy tales you post are so intensely familiar and remind me of so many other things, but yet I've never heard any of them actually told before. They're charming. It's a shame you don't have more views.

My personal take is that bluedwedd never wanted to wed they simply assumed since lleu had an awful mother replacing her with a woman made of flowers would have sufficed and so she loved gronw as an equal not as an ersatz caregiver.

Still waiting for that fifth Branch Wales...

Owl Service...

diolch yn fawr

Ropey pronouciation of some of the welsh names but got the jist of it

i don't understand the concept of "only a mother can give a baby a name" anyone can give anyone and anything any name at any time and for any reason, people do it literally all the time, and what if the mother dies during labor? why can't the father give a name? why wouldn't the father take naming precedence for that matter? such bewildering social mores the ancient welsh seemed to have had