Dwyfan and Dwyfach
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Dwyfan and Dwyfach, Dwyvan and Dwyvach. Welsh equivalents of Noah or Deucalion who take their names from small rivers, as told in a
flood legend from the
Triads. A great flood was caused by the monster
Afanc, who dwelt in
Llyn Llion (possibly
Bala Lake). All humans were drowned except Dwyfan and Dwyfach, who escaped in a mastless boat. They built an imposing ship (or ark) called
Nefyd Naf Neifion, on which they carried two of every living kind. From Dwyfan and Dwyfach all of the island of Prydain [Britain] was repeopled. Dwyfach appears to take her name from the small Dwyfach [W, little Dwy] River of
Gwynedd (until 1974, Caernarvonshire) that flows into Cardigan Bay; Dwyfan would then derive from the river it enters, the Dwyfawr or Dwyfor [W, great Dwy].
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