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Twrch Trwyth (Welsh pronunciation: [tuːɾχ tɾʊɨθ] ; also Welsh: Trwyd) is a fabulous wild boar in Arthurian legend. A richly elaborate account of its hunt is described in the Welsh prose romance Culhwch and Olwen, which was probably written around 1100.
Its hunt involved King Arthur and his hosts and his hound Cafall, and was also deemed to require other recruited men of talent, other hounds, and additional equipment such as a leash, according to the tasks (anoetheu) prescribed by the giant Ysbaddaden, though events did not always unfold as the giant foretold. The boar was brought out of Ireland, driven to Britain, and finally shoved off a cliff into the sea at Cornwall.
The legend, in simpler form, dates much earlier, since Arthur's use of his hound Cavall (Latin: Cavall (base text, MS. MS. H), Latin: caball (MS. K), Latin: caballusMS. D1), Latin: caballus(MSS. D2 G) to hunt the boar (Latin: Troynt (base text, MSS.H K), Troit (MSS.C1 D G Q); or Terit (MSS. C2 L)) is glimpsed in a piece of geographical onomasticon composed in Latin in the ninth century, the Historia Brittonum.
A passing reference in the elegy Gwarchan Cynfelyn (7th century), preserved in the Book of Aneirin, is reckoned to be its earliest mention in literature. Trwyth is also mentioned in several other pieces of poetry from the Middle Welsh period.
The name in Welsh can be construed to mean "the boar Trwyth", and past scholars argued it may be analogous to the boar Triath of Irish mythology (see #Etymology and Irish cognate below).
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