Editing Arawn (section)

===Other legends===

In Welsh folklore, the [[Cŵn Annwn]] or "Hounds of Annwn" ride through the skies in autumn, winter, and early spring. The baying of the hounds was identified with the crying of wild geese as they migrate and the quarry of the hounds as wandering spirits, being chased to Annwn. However, Arawn himself is not referred to in these traditions. Later the myth was Christianised to describe the "capturing of human souls and the chasing of damned souls to Annwn", and Annwn was equated with the "[[Hell]]" of Christian tradition.

Some writers, notably [[Robert Graves]], have written of an incident in which [[Amaethon]] steals a dog, [[lapwing]] and a white [[Roe Deer|roebuck]] from Arawn, leading to the [[Cad Goddeu]] (Battle of the Trees), which Arawn lost to Amaethon and his brother, [[Gwydion]]. The standard text of 'Cad Goddeu' in the [[Book of Taliesin]] makes no mention of this, but the [[Welsh Triads]] records the Battle of Goddeu as one of the "Three Futile Battles of the Island of Britain...it was brought about by the cause of the bitch, together with the roebuck and the plover",<ref>Rachel Bromwich, ''The Welsh Triads'', 2nd Edition.</ref> while Lady Charlotte Guest notes in her ''Mabinogion'' an account in the [[Myvyrian Archaeology]]<ref>Guest ''The Mabinogion'', from Peniarth manuscript 98b, 81-2 quoted at http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/cadgoddeu.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608213842/http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/cadgoddeu.html |date=2011-06-08 }}</ref> that the battle "was on account of a white roebuck and a whelp; and they came from Hell, and Amathaon ab Don brought them. And therefore Amathaon ab Don, and Arawn, King of Annwn (Hell), fought. And there was a man in that battle, unless his name were known he could not be overcome; and there was on the other side a woman called Achren, and unless her name were known her party could not be overcome. And Gwydion ab Don guessed the name of the man".

Rankie and d'Este (2007) note that Arawn could be the father of [[Modron]], as the tale of the Ford of Barking recounts Modron's father as "the King of Annwn."<ref name="IoMGArawn" />