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Gender Masculine
Usage Welsh Mythology
Meaning & History
The name of a giant and father of Olwen in the Mabinogion, a collection of eleven prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts.The origin of his name is disputed; one theory suggests that it might be derived from Welsh ysbaddu "to castrate", while other scholars suspect a derivation from Welsh ysbyddad "hawthorn".