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Summary
Branwen, having been reduced to a maid in the kitchen by her husband, Matholwch, and beaten every day by the butcher, teaches a sparrow to speak and sends it across the Irish Sea to find her brother, Bran the Blessed, the king of Britain, to save her during the Second Branch of the Mabinogi. Illustration is by Alan Lee ISBN-13: 978-0261103917.