Havgan

Family: Annwn · Role: king · First appears: PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED 1

Life events

Pwyll agrees to assume Arawn’s form and defeat Havgan in exchange for Arawn’s friendship.(PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED 1 · 📍 Glyn Cuch)
- With: Pwyll Arawn the king of Annwn
- “I will make firm friendship with thee; and this will I do, I will send thee to Annwvyn in my stead”
Pwyll strikes Havgan a deadly blow but refuses to deliver the second blow that would kill him.(PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED 1 · 📍 the Ford)
- With: Pwyll
- “at the first thrust, the man who was in the stead of Arawn struck Havgan on the centre of the boss of his shield, so that it was cloven in twain, and his armour was broken, and Havgan himself was borne to the ground an arm's and a spear's length over the crupper of his horse, and he received a deadly blow.”
Pwyll receives homage and brings both kingdoms under his power after Havgan’s defeat.(PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED 1 · 📍 Annwvyn)
- With: Pwyll
- “And thereupon he received the homage of the men, and he began to conquer the country; and the next day by noon the two kingdoms were in his power.”

enemies with Arawn the king of Annwn “There is a man whose dominions are opposite to mine, who is ever warring against me, and he is Havgan, a King of Annwvyn”
with Pwyll (Pwyll defeated Havgan while acting in Arawn's semblance.) “Thereupon the two Kings approached each other in the middle of the Ford, and encountered, and at the first thrust, the man who was in the stead of Arawn struck Havgan on the centre of the boss of his shield, so that it was cloven in twain, and his armour was broken, and Havgan himself was borne to the ground”

Extracted from the original text of The Mabinogion. Made with Rho MD.