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Gwales is the island in The Mabinogion where the head of Bran is taken after the return from Ireland at the end of the Second Branch; 'Branwen Ferch Llŷr', and where those who return spend eighty years of repose while time stands still.
Quotations at the head of each section from the following early or medieval Welsh texts : I The Gododdin ; II The Mabinogion;
III The Elegy of Gruffudd ap yr Ynad Coch following the death and beheading of Lywelyn; IV Dafydd ap Gwilym; V Iolo Goch .