Gwyn ap Nudd is one of our ancestral British gods and where I live, in Shropshire, is one of his places. Gwyn leads the Wild Hunt. One of his jobs is to collect up lost souls and steer them over the river into the peaceful, healing, Islands of the West.
I live in the Stretton Hills, an ancient caldera of ex-volcanoes from about 560 million years ago! Fortunately, all the volcanoes have gone to sleep but they’ve left us these beautiful pointy hills and my front window looks out across the valley to one of them, the Caradoc. It's one of Gwyn’s strongholds. Looking out from the cave at the top, I can see my front door!
Gwyn is part of our local legend too, Wild Edric. Edric was a real person – he very nearly beat back William the Conqueror! – and he married a fairy wife. Now he’s said to lead the Wild Hunt as Gwyn’s representative.
This story is about the Wild Hunt …
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