British Mysteries	Aberffraw
Ynys Prydein Myths Places	In the Tale of Branwen, the marriage feast of Branwen and Matholwch, the king of Ireland, is celebrated at Aberffraw in Anglesey: They fixed upon Aberffraw as the place where she should become his bride, and so they proceeded there, Matholwch and his people in their ships, Bendigeid Vran and his people by land, until they came to Aberffraw. And then they began the feast and sat down, the King of the Island of the Mighty and Manawyddan the son of Llyr on one side, and Matholwch on the other side, with Branwen the daughter of Llyr beside him. They sat under tents, and not within a house, because no house could ever contain Bendigeid Vran. The area of Aberffraw has been inhabited since the stone age. There is a Bronze Age burial mound at Trwyn Du (Black Point), which was built over the remains of an earlier Stone Age settlement. Aberffraw was once the capital of North Wales, documented as the ancestral seat of the Princes of Gwynedd between the 9th and 13th centuries.	Location SH350690 Local Links The Tale of Branwen Web Links Aberffraw history Where legends begin Local walks Feedback Reader’s tales Tell us about it