in two manuscripts dating to the mid- and late-fourteenth century, but many of the tales themselves "evolved over a span of centuries: passed on from storyteller to storyteller, they were by turns expanded and distorted, improved and misunderstood." A mythological tale in the first of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, one involving Annwvyn, not-world, or the Otherworld, tells of a hunting expedition undertaken by Pwyll Lord of Dyved. He sets his hounds against those of Arawn, the king of the Otherworld, and in an attempt to make amends, agrees to exchange places with this king for a year and a day in order to do battle with another king of the Otherworld, Havgan, in a year's time. So Arawn takes on the form of Pywll, Pwyll takes on the appearance of Arawn, and after spending a year in each other's lands, Pwyll (who looks like Arawn) does battle with Havgan, who must only be struck once, since if he is struck repeatedly, he will return the next day as fit and well as he ever was. Explanatory notes Notes References (editions) "Golagrus and Gawain" (1508), in: Chepman and Myllar Prints'' (p. 7-48 of bound volume containing other works) online edition: (Digitized images of the pages of blackletter edition, parallel with e-text) (modern translations) (other references) An abridged English translation of the continuations. Reprinted 1997, 2006. Reprinted in paperback, 2007. External links The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain in Modern English prose translation (abridged and paraphrased, not a full line by line translation) 15th-century poems 1508 books Arthurian literature in Middle English Middle English poems Middle Scots poems Scottish poems Scots-language works