In the canon
The Mabinogion
Anonymous
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1200
- Originally in
- Originally in Welsh
- Pages
- Pages 300
Wherever Olwen walked, four white trefoils sprang up behind her, and these Welsh tales hand you a thing like that without comment, as though the world had always worked that way. A woman is conjured out of oak, broom and meadowsweet to be given as a wife, betrays the man she was made for, and is turned into an owl for it.
More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave
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