Note 5 — Chapter IX · Place-name Stories
Reading edition
This word is found written in Mod. Welsh Annwfn, but it has been mostly superseded by the curtailed form Annwn, which appears twice in the Mabinogi of Math. These words have been studied by M. Gaidoz in Meyer and Stern’s Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, i. 29–34, where he equates Annwfn with the Breton anauon, which is a plural used collectively for the souls of the departed, the other world. His view, however, of these interesting words has since been mentioned in the same Zeitschrift, iii. 184–5, and opposed in the Annales de Bretagne, xi. 488. ↑