Dylan ail Don

Parentage

• maternal: Arianrhod ferch Dôn

Domains

• sea and waves

Powers

• takes on the nature of the sea at once, swimming as well as any fish so that no wave breaks beneath him

Relations

• sibling: Lleu Llaw GyffesPaired-birth brother of Lleu through the same magic-wand magical-conception; took the seas nature at birth.Mabinogion Fourth Branch the dropping-of-two-sons scene (primary)
• killed by: GofannonSlain by his uncle Gofannon with one blow.Mabinogion Fourth Branch; Trioedd Ynys Prydein (primary)

Sources

• existence: Mabinogion Fourth Branch (Math fab Mathonwy), in the White Book of Rhydderch and Red Book of Hergest (primary); Bromwich, Trioedd Ynys Prydein (1961), on the slaying of Dylan as one of the Three Unfortunate Blows (secondary)